International politic has been working that way for centuries. While people are suffering or even dying, some people in nice armchair talk about what’s going to happen.
And without sounding like A conspiracy nut, I wonder how much Putin was involved in the things heating up in Palestine and the red-sea. When Russian spies do antisemtic graffiti to increase tension in Western Europe Sauce I would be surprised if they didn’t chat with Iran and even the Hamas and Houthis rebels