Yeah, but most of us have this funny idea that war is a bad thing and we don't want to do it again.
I'm pretty sure there are enough 'pro-war, show those bad guys who's boss! We ain't no pussies' people to form a formidably large army, though, which seems like a win-win for everyone.
Those who want war can go ahead. Everyone else can continue what we've put so much effort into for the last 100 years or so. And all the 'big fan of war as long as it's happening to somebody else' people can choose to be very quiet, or shipped off to the front lines.
I suspect the internet would suddenly take a very pacifist turn.
I get your point but I don't think Russia recreating the first acts of WWII on a NATO country can be dismissed as a 'distraction' from many real world events short of actual official world war 3, or Putin being arrested or something.
There is also a strong argument that illegally invading a country is always quite a significant event, certainly to the people in that country.