My question was honest, I'm not surprised that you could doubt it, I seem to remember now that I myself asked you a similar question in the past. Without wanting this to sound like an interview or an interrogation, how to hold the United States or Europe responsible for Putin's decision to march on kyiv to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine? Who, how and why provoked this war?
From my point of view, Russia follows the pattern of destabilizing an area and then sending its troops to help the insurgents (eg:
Russo-Georgian War). The reason is Putin's desire for greatness, his desire to return to the old territorial glory of the USSR, apart from more prosaic goals such as access to important ports and resources.