How is it that pro-Putin conservatives who condemn the Japanese for organizing a sneak attack against Pearl Harbor are totally okay with Putin organizing one against Ukraine? Because they think the Ukrainians are "Nazis" albeit Jewish led Nazis? No declaration of war, no warnings, no chance at negotiation, no airing of grievances: just a sneak attack that to this day they deny is a war. When Zelensky offered Putin a chance to negotiate regarding the Donbas, Putin refused and said he should negotiate with the heads of the people's republics, once again lying regarding the fact that the separatists were Russian proxies.
In fact, there is a sense in which the Russian sneak attack was more nefarious than the Japanese---the Japanese at least made their greivances clear through diplomatic channels before attacking us; they did not declare war and their actions were deeply dishonorable though tactically understandable, but Putin's actions were even more detestable. Japan at least knew they were going up against a superior adversary; Russia engaged in such cowardice when aggressing against a weaker party. If the weak kid sucker punches a much bigger kid, that is understandable. But what kind of human trash sucker punches a smaller kid. Putin, Vladimir fucking Putin.
Anyway, if you really think Putin's actions are so wonderful, so praiseworthy, start praising the Japanese for their sneak attack at Pearl Harbor: It is obvious to me that you care more about defeating your local political opposition, who are deeply corrupt and do deserve to be defeated but nonetheless remain Americans, than about securing your country's safety against its sworn enemies.
The American government has its own problems with lying, esp. in the sphere of domestic politics. But Jesus, the only thing I can say about the Russian government is that it lies so often that a perverse sort of honesty emerges: You always know what they are saying is a a lie, so you always know that the truth is something else.
A lot of those pro-Russian guys who think of themselves as rightwing actually see the Axis side as the good side in WW2. They're explicitly pro-Germany but only implicitly pro-Japan, the latter by emphasizing (in a condemning kind of way) the idea that FDR set Japan up because he wanted to enter the war. Note Yarvin's recommendation of a book called HUMAN SMOKE by Nicholson Baker that he (Yarvin) presents as convincingly arguing or strongly suggesting that the USA and UK shouldn't have fought the Axis powers.
I think that Russia's motives are like those of a guy who beats the ex-girlfriend that betrayed him. The sense of closeness with Ukraine makes the apparent betrayal painful, and there's a lashing-out response. Of course Russia was an abusive boyfriend -- but then those same pro-Russian guys tend to see all of the atrocities of the communist government in the Soviet Union as a specifically Jewish crime, just as they tend to see the Western Proggism of today as a specifically Jewish crime.
If Western governments weren't evil, support for Ukraine would be so obviously right just on be-on-your-own side grounds (because Ukraine wants Western patronage so the honorable thing to do is to defend the client) that anyone who complained about how much money the USA is spending on arms for Ukraine, etc, would just come off as a creep. The evilness of Western governments complicates things, but it certainly doesn't make support for Russia right, any more than disgust with the Roman or Byzantine bureaucracies would have made support for the Huns or Arabs right.