I think it's less
@Terthna is 'friendly' to Russia, as he simply sees the current situation as the natural evolution of the Maidan coup which frankly NATO isn't innocent in, and the 2020 election showed the US no longer even has the 'functional, fair, and honest' elections, which was something we could always hold over Russia and their ilk before.
However,
@Terthna forgets the innocent airliner the rebels downed, the fact Russia used artillery inside Russia to support the Donbass rebels and held up the investigation into that airline shoot down for years. The Russian's have been at war in the Donbass for 8 years or so, in the eyes of the Ukrainian public, not just since earlier this year, as he mistakenly believes.
More than one thing can be true at once, which is where the conflict lies here between people who usually share the same nominal side. All the flaws
@Terthna has seen can be in evidence, even if he is mistake about some of the finer details on the ground and feel that the US/NATO are partially/mostly responsible for this war because of the Maidan and lead-up to it, along with the stolen 2020 election.
@Tiamat can also be correct that Russia is mostly responsible for this, because Putin is the one who ordered tanks through Chernobyl and has been stealing grain and his army has stolen damn near everything, including several generations of children who have been kidnapped and sent away to 'proper Russian families'.
The seeds of the conflicts here go back before even WW2 and can be mostly laid at the feet of Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the assassin who whacked Franz Ferdinand.
However
@Tiamat, you need to understand that in the eyes of many, stuff like Epstein/his connections to possible intel ops/political games, the way the Wu Flu was handled, the stolen election of 2020...it's not just one thing, it's an avalanche of lost trust and misdeeds in the government as a whole which has rendered the Constitution you swore loyalty to
null and void.
So you need to understand people like
@Terthna and many others have no reason to see your bosses in DC, and people who willing serve and illegit regime, as any more moral, legitimate, or righteous as they claim Putin or Xi are, and willing to give the other side's public level PR shit to be taken seriously.
Personally the only reason I hate Putin and Xi more than Biden is because the first two are competent evil, while Biden is a puppet with Obama's hand up his ass and Jill dosing him to the gills to keep him functional.