The Nazis trumped up the accusations that excused the invasion, it hardly mattered that few believed them.
The Russians have exaggerated and inflamed the complaints , however real the seed of them might have been , they did not amount to a revival of Hitlerism as accused.
If the Ukrainian government is more corrupt than the Russian government , that is very corrupt indeed, but local corruption is better than distant and imposed corruption.
I suppose that the US could use similar thinking if a group of Americans were being threatened on a little Caribbean island .