By your own admission, Russia isn’t “right” or “justified” in thinking that we are the aggressor, yet you are defending their delusional thinking anyway. Sorry, but your argument is all over the place and I don’t think it’s worth arguing against, since you already argue against yourself in your own post.
Nobody is right, there’s just different degrees of wrong.
He is not right or justified in invading Ukraine.
We were not right or justified in helping to overthrow their government.
We were stupid to upset the balance of power there.
We were cruel in using the Ukrainian people as pawns to enrich our globalist oligarchs.
I think Putin is a war criminal. I also think GWB, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Barak Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Zelensky are war criminals too.