It's weird from our point of view but from what I've seen from Russian media since the start of the war, they see the Ukrainians as wayward brothers so it's understandable to a degree why they've led the war with restraint.

I'm sure the west's support surprised them and even to this day I'm still not sure why we have turned this into a existential crisis and risk a nuclear conflict over Ukraine of all places. I'm curious too how long this can go on especially if they're dumb enough to go ahead with the oil price cap which will totally end up fucking the west harder than anything before now.