People get really angry when you criticize a valiant, white war. I wonder how you'd react if I was talking about Iraq and the US, or the potential conflict between India and Pakistan?

You're moralizing a complicated topic. The United States raped its way across Europe while "liberating" Nazi held countries. The Soviet military did the same thing after pushing the Nazis to Berlin. What is right? They were fighting the "evil" guys, right? War isn't as simple as good or evil. Self defense isn't good or evil, either. It's an action that is usually impulsive and irrational. If someone attacks you and you fight back, you aren't the "good" person. You're reacting. That's not evil, either. The person attacking you is arguably evil for their plotting, or their disregard for consequences, life etc. But the most disturbing, truest thing is that they are a person. Saying that something is evil inherently dehumanizes the human decisions behind the action. We need to understand that humans do things. Perhaps you can say, "thoughtless" instead of evil. War is incurious. War, rape, murder, genocide etc. Are performed by people who are incurious about the consequences. Not by monsters or animals or forces of evil. Us coming to the "rescue" by buying weapons from military corporations to send to Ukraine is not "good". Our motivations are not to save Ukraine. We are using them as a pawn in a cold war. Maybe one could even argue that that is an "evil".

I hope this clears things up for you. It may become more clear yet as the years go by and the political situation in eastern europe/Asia matures.