Yea but it would also be a mistake to just assume that this is the case yet again, especially given that the United States has adamantly refused to put troops in Ukraine and has sought diplomatic solutions from the start. The US government has really pushed against inflaming the US population toward war. If recognizing atrocities, however, pushes people toward war than there isn't much you can do about that besides continue to do what the US has done which is not get into the war.
I went to Iraq. The war was probably misguided (although there is still a democratically elected government in Iraq... so... idk) - Ukraine is quite unlike Iraq and if this generation (which I think includes me?) is drawing comparisons than it's because of a lack of thought and education around world events.
This is sort of the Chomsky syndrome: Assuming that government A is always lying, and that therefore the opposite claim by government B has to be right.
They saw how the whole media and US military and intelligence community could push a story that was designed to inflame people and push for war.
And we saw the huge cost of that.
Fool me once…