Are you trying to rebrand useful idiot to no longer mean dumbasses who repeat Moscows fairytales š? That'll be as successfull as Russia claiming it did not start WW2 together with the Nazis to eat up Poland.
Also your link is a fictional opinion piece by some "journalist". The comment below the article gives a great summary:
JHC this is one of the worst examples of āfantasy realismā Iāve ever seen. I donāt doubt that the US motives arenāt stellar and never have been but good god man, russia has shown itself for over 400 years to be a brutal imperialist terrorist state and is slaughtering, raping, torturing Ukrainian civilians (men, women, AND children) in a godawful genocide (canāt say that word here? I donāt see a trace of it). You know damn well what would happen in occupied territories if ānegotiationsā were carried out before russia was thoroughly kicked out of Ukraine and defeated. Putin apologist/tankie is what I see here.
So still no one in the West threatening Russian territorial integrity. (Because no one gives a shit about that crap land, all we ever wanted was to just buy your resources and let it be)