The BLM "summer of love" had its virtue signaling tendrils being far more invasive and widespread (even though the risk to the fate of humanity was meaningless).
My reasoning behind this is that fucking everything had the stupid "BLM" shit plastered on it. Every corporation and brand put out the black background with white text logo virtue signal, and things entirely unrelated to black people or the culture war would have virtue signaling banner. Now there is a lot of the same shit with the Ukraine situation, but not nearly as widespread.
For instance, I distinctly remembering having to see the stupid fucking BLM banner on both the React documentation pages and the Django documentation pages. Right now, React (which is facebook/meta owned) docs has a virtue banner for the Ukies:
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While Django does not:
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So, by my arbitrary standards, the culture war on this is only 50% as intense. Also, the usual virtue signaling Americans (like, the employees of Roosterteeth) aren't baying and gnashing their teeth about Ukraine to any significant degree. Most of them are ignoring it, unlike the BLM virtue signal.
TLDR: The global implications, sanctions, and governmental consequences of this are far greater, but the social media storm is not nearly as insane as the BLM bullshit of 2020.