I do not condone Russia's invasion but this is a simplistic take. One could also make a case like this: In 2014 a revolution overthrew Ukraine's legally elected

I do not condone Russia's invasion but this is a simplistic take. One could also make a case like this: In 2014 a revolution overthrew Ukraine's legally elected government. The victorious revolutionaries then attempted to force the supporters of the overthrown government to remain part of the same country with them rather than letting them secede. The supporters of the overthrown government turned to Russia for aid. There are many contentious issues related to this situation, many inconclusive arguments over who started the violence during the revolution, over the extent to which the overthrown government was a Russian puppet, over the extent to which the revolutionaries were NATO puppets, over whether or not the revolution was justified despite it having deposed a fairly elected government because the government was corrupt, and so on, over Russian hypocrisy in supporting Donbass separatists even though Russia would not permit one of its own territories to secede, etc. I would not say that it is an open and shut matter. The way I see it, at the very least there is not some cartoonishly good side in this war that is covered only in honor.