Debunking NATO propaganda and consent manufacturing means massively massively more than your personal relationships and comfort. I don't want to hear how hard it is to be called a 'shill for Putin'. People should have already been calling you a shill for Assad, for Kim Jong Un, for Xi, for Castro or you have been fucking NEGLIGENT AS LEFTISTS. If you're in the imperial core your primary fucking duty is to anti imperialism. Clearly a lot of you haven't been doing this. Now there are possible nuclear consequences and I see a great deal of you still too fucking chicken shit to stick their necks out for people living under the thumbs of America and NATO. Investigate the situation thoroughly and have an informed, consistent take based in Marxism and historical materialism and then REPEAT IT LOUDLY AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD DO NOT STAND FOR THIS. This is supposed to be a board of principled communists, act like it.
Read Combat Liberalism
no one says pick Putins side but since the convo is so utterly, obsessively pro Nato/"Hitler=Putin and invaded cause he is crazy and russians are uruk hai" unhinged EVERYWHERE , anything other than primarily higlighting Nato and the US creating and being primarily at fault for the situation and crisis leading to the invasion does nothing but reinforce those narratives and biases. When you have tens of thousands of baby leftists becoming pro Nato overnight and the propaganda being at full force, countering that would innevitably involve a ton of Nato and US talk .
And even if your read is as you say "this is a war between two imperialist blocs, at least equaly at fault", then the "imperial core" leftist if part of a concious revolutionar class cannot but desire the defeat of his bloc or at the very least focus on the rhetoric against it