I don’t think there’s any way around the fact that Putin is fighting the globalists.
This simplifies the problem quite well.
(That is, it’s the globalists who want to kill us the most, much less so Putin.)
There is another objective means to gain perspective on this, one much better than wading through anonymous posts on the internet which claim special knowledge while doling out passive aggressive insults:
The fact that all the leftists, all the rinos and all the globalists are desperate to demonize Putin.