> For example, according to these people Putin is right because EU and NATO were expanding and Putin had to invade. Actual human beings dreaming to join a socie

> For example, according to these people Putin is right because EU and NATO were expanding and Putin had to invade. Actual human beings dreaming to join a society with low corruption and big prospects(In contrast to Russian sphere of influence) is irrelevant for them, they will tell you that Ukrainians should have remained a buffer. Go you live your life as buffer. IMHO, what you describe is often just a special case of not thinking very holistically, zooming in on too few things while ignoring the whole, then reasoning about the whole based on those too few things. Oftentimes that leads to prioritizing something that's morally wrong, or otherwise getting priorities mixed up by elevating some less important thing over a more important thing. Those kinds of errors are also easily exploitable by controlling attention. E.g. if you attend narrowly enough to Putin's grievances, his actions will seem justified no matter how awful they are. Another area where I often see this is economics.