The careful foreign policy of the UK as to the present special military operation is laudable in its attention to principles of international law, but it's likely not to be read that way by the participants in the conflict, who will be more inclined to see pro-Arab forces within Whitehall and institutional forces as the culprit, rather than the Sherswood? Sharwood? principles about conformance to law and independent advice. (Apparently it took the ministry four or five days to realize that it might be wise to deploy the carrier.) There is a sense among some at the highest levels under the blue flag of the Levant that if the WW2 holocaust hadn't happened in Germany, it would have happened in England. And the grain of truth for these musings is the genuine intransigence inside Whitehall, likely from the cultural transmission that occurred in Protectorate and oil development days. An episode of Yes Minister makes some reference to the phenomenon.
But I'm inclined to allow the person who does the right thing the best possible explanation of their actions, given how rarely those in power seem to do the right thing.