I think the elites big mistake leading to this war was their assumption that Russia would be as complacent and docile as the American slaves have proven to be under the rule of their Washington masters. But to your point, while not considering the Russians to be saints, they are at least fighting on the side of national sovereignty and against that hideous strength that is the globalist cabal in Washington/Brussels. And that makes them allies to any God-fearing, freedom-loving people in the present age.
Never thought I'd come to that viewpoint, but I never expected Donald Trump to be our one great hope in politics either.