Russia is the bad guy for both the war and their reaction to the sanctions. Your comment is like saying "don't get mad at a criminal for shooting at the police chasing him".
Just so that we're clear, calling the West as "the police" as you do with your analogy just reinforces Russia's claim that we now live in a unipolar world, of which the US is the policeman (hence Russia's desire to split it all into a multi-polar world, no police chasing bad guys without international due-process there).
Nothing in the world justifies a Russian invasion of Ukraine, because this isn't the 18th fucking century.
Stop trying to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Plus, you furthered his point by calling the western atrocious as “conflicts”.
It's ridiculous to me we went all in on sanctions pretending they would bend over and keep doing business with us, but only on things we want them to, after we deny them machinery, computers, software, cars and steal/freeze their assets.
Your analogy doesn't work, we aren't police and they are not shooting, they quit doing business and decided they are okay without our money.
Even Putin was honest enough to call it an invasion and limited his lies to attempts to justify it.
Yes retaliation for sanctions can be expected. But Russia is still the bad actor here.
As stated, I support both supporting Ukraine and the sanctions.
That doesn't make our policy makers any less ridiculous and short sighted in their expectations.
In English "Ukraine's war" give the ownership of the war to Ukraine, making them responsible for it.
If this isn't your intent then good, and I apologize for calling you a Russian apologist.
So after we funded Ukraine's war, sanctioned Russia into oblivion, froze hundreds of billions $ of their money, forced our companies to leave their market, and even seized their belongings it's them weaponizing assets?
I'm all for the sanctions and support, but making Russia the bad guy for our economic crisis because they are retaliating sanctions is really biased. It's not a weapon, it's a trade and they leave money on the table everyday. Lots of money.