Where is Alternative Media headed on the Russia-Ukraine War?

I can well appreciate the perplexity that the recent shift in my discourse about Putin has raised among some in the Community of subscribers and followers of this Substack web platform. It is not that I was ever a cheerleader for Vladimir Vladimirovich. That I find unacceptable for any honest public intellectual. We are expected to be objective and the truth is almost always in the grey zone, without demigods and very few positively evil actors, though we all can name a few starting with Ursula von der Leyen.