Ukraine is in an existential fight with a brutal enemy. That counts as “nothing more than money laundering.”
No, Ukraine has, from the beginning, was fighting a proxy war that we and NATO desperately wanted and has done everything it we can to keep going against Russia.
Everything that has happened in Ukraine has been result in our meddling there, going back to illegal coup we fomented back in 2014. We installed a puppet government that was hostile to both Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine. We setoff a civil war there. We armed, trained and funded a 600,000 man army. We armed Ukraine with weapons that could hit Russia. We teased NATO membership for Ukraine. We were running biolabs in Ukraine with deadly pathogens in them.
If Russia or China had done anything like that Mexico, we, justifiably, would invade.