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@hakan_geijer I don't unfortunately - it seems pretty cut and dried that at a high level Russia is the aggressor invading for its own internal reckoning and a general principle of a Nation State engaging in self defense holds here so it's kind of hard to argue that there was a peaceable way out that simply wasn't taken...so there really isn't a contrarian angle folks are willing to pick up and put their name to.

Like Tankies et al go all sorts of outlandish places with that stuff in notional support of Russia.

However, my take since the start has been, American Liberals in particular are going outlandish places with their notional support of Ukraine that have reflected domestic engagement and disposition with things like 'Self defense means anything goes' and 'You don't get to choose who your defenders are, so what if they've got SS bolts tattooed on their eyelids, this is war!' and thirstily hoping Putin receives a comeuppance for all the chicanery he's pulled off over the decades, and it's like...

War brings out the worst in people, maybe especially the spectators that don't really have a dog in it, but use it as a divining tool as if they do.

If I were penning an earnest thoughtful critique of the whole conflict, it would focus on the audience who is using it as yet another vehicle for themselves.

Edit: That's not exactly Anarchist though, I can only force an agency argument so far there.

Edit 2: And part of my focus with this is that I'm just surrounded with vacuous hoorah for war in a dichotomy of Good vs. Evil by political spectators who think war is something they should have feels about by virtue of who The State Department is funding at that moment in time.