Tankies actually standing between the hostile parties is not that realistic, though.

No way man, there are bad actors in the west (didn’t you hear?), so the moscovite version of imperialism and genocide is actually morally good. Can’t you see NATO is expanding its defensive pact to akshually attack!?? /s

Next level mental gymnastics, and it’s only costing them a full generation of men, their whole economy, and their neighboors sons and daughters. Just so they could say they annexed the fucking donbas. wtf.