As you have stated in numerous ways including this one.
The problem is that like everyone who turns a blind eye to tyranny, you can't help but try to convince others so that you have support for a position that common sense say is unjustified, just as Neville Chamberlain did.
In every historical case where this occurs, eventually the blind eye can see at some point. As do all those with bind eyes..
Putin is a scorpion. If you pick it up and it stings you, who is to blame?