I too was once like you: pro West, anti-Putin. On the Ukraine affair way back in 2014, I was outraged that Putin took Crimea etc etc.
So what changed my point of view? Russiagate. That nonsense the Democrat Party propagated about Putin interfering in the election to get Trump elected. I also found out that it wasn't Russian operatives shooting at the Maidan protestors from the top of a building. It was neo Nazi Ukrainians. They are small but ruthless so their influence belies their size. But I should've known better because I already knew about the lies the West told to go war in Iraq in 2003. WMD's in Iraq was a big fat lie. And US Officials went on television and told these lies to the whole world. Knowing they were lies.
So my point? The West does Propaganda too. Stephen Kotkin works for the Hoover Institute. The Hoover Institute has an agenda to promote American "free-market" capitalism around the world. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/hoover-institution/
Have a look at Professors Meersheimer and Stephen Cohen. For an alternative view on the Ukrainian situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mciLyG9iexE
Why do you dismiss anyone in the West who is against what the West is doing in Ukraine as "Russian mouthpieces"? But you never question whether Western sources as "American Hegemonic" propaganda? Is it not possible for Westerners to look at what is happening in Ukraine and conclude that it is folly?
Surely, you are aware of PNAC? (Project for a New American Century).
>Sovereign countries got fed up with Genocide and aggression at the hands of Russians, who now believe that multipolarity is a rightful green card for unchecked coercion of neighboring countries. --Gaza? To tell you the truth I'm fed up with American backed Genocide. What has Russia (under Putin) done that is worse than this? Do you not think that what goes on in Gaza is an all time low for the West? Surely you do.