Not seeing the broader context is also a voluntary and free choice. You can take any policy document or statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or National Security Council and they will identify the enemy very clearly. The enemy is not Ukraine, it is NATO. The February 24 invasion began after Russia's ultimatum to NATO and the accusation of NATO expansion to the East was used to justify Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Only the blind can fail to see the global dimension of the conflict, and this global character is constantly emphasized by the Russian leadership, the military and state media in public statements. They have every reason to do so. The destroyed Nord Stream-2 pipeline is not in Ukraine, but at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The damaged communication cables between Finland and Estonia are not in Ukraine, but at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland. The oil terminals of St. Petersburg attacked by drones are 1200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. My company's office in Moscow has been attacked twice by combat drones and it is no fun at all for me to read nonsense such as “the war is restricted to Ukraine alone (even not the whole of it!)”