“What we are witnessing is a US v Russia proxy war via the Ukraine.”
Russia started the war.
Hitler used this same thing in WW2 to get the Germans to fight on when they should have surrendered and got the best peace deal they could. His argument was that the allied powers had plans to break up postwar Germany, with some even publicly suggesting that it be totally de-industrialized and made completely pastoral. To his credit, HS Truman rejected these crazy ideas but they did give fodder to Hitler’s propagandists to keep the Germans fighting. This is the same idea - some ivory towered idiot planning to break up Russia which is none of our damned business.