American long-term interests lie with opposing international war criminals, preferably with military force.
Putin was and is legally and morally wrong invading Ukraine - there is plenty of evidence that “reasons” for invasion were forged, despite your Russian convictions.
You will know how the people of Crimea feel if a conservative President from Texas (pretend you also live in Texas) is elected and then an army of homos, envirowackos, welfare cases, and IRS agents stage a coup and force the President to flee to Texas. This army of misfits then makes Sean Penn President.
He was not legally impeached, by the way, in Ukraine.