Larger countries attack smaller or weaker ones, weaker ones attacking stronger ones would risk an existential crisis. In 2022 the Russian Federation was believed to be fairly weak, it's military expenditure was 7% of the US military budget, and the US had the rest of Western Europe on our side, so threatening Russia seemed a perfectly normal thing to do. Except for those nukes. It was a gas station with nukes, the Ural Mountains with nukes, a forest with nukes.
But we were sure they wouldn't use them, and they would capitulate and we would all collectively dismantle the nukes. Russia was so weak. And has the World's largest natural gas reserves. We would lure Russia into a battle in Ukraine, and 'bleed Russia white'. From our side it looked like a safe bet. Somehow 7% of our expenditure on weapons, a GDP said to match that of Italy, against not just us but Britain, France, Germany, and other countries, seemed pretty safe.
For Russia to decide to attack, they already had the World's largest gas reserves, and a pipeline selling gas to Germany, they had a lot to lose, and almost nothing to gain.
Poor Russia. They were basically forced to attack Ukraine and try and take Kyiv by force. And also I'm sure it's poor China. Basically forced to hose down and ram Philippines boats a couple hundreds ks off their coast.
They didn't invade Ukraine, they moved a small military force in, a special operation, to show that 'nyet' means 'nyet'. NATO and nuclear armed missiles were not allowed to be placed near the border of Russia. Type in: nyet means nyet russia and you will get previously confidential information confirming that NATO knew that further expansion eastward was perceived as a threat by Russia.
Russia-Ukraine is a blood feud going back over 100 years. This is just another chapter of it. We didn't need to "lure" Russia into anything.
It appears you are claiming it isn't Biden's fault because the war in Ukraine has been in the making for 100 years. And the Republicans losing control of the Senate, and Congress voting 700 million dollars of 'aid' for Ukraine, arriving and being put into use about Feb 16th 2022, increasing the shelling of Donetsk from about 3 or 4 shells a day to 30 or 40 shells a day, resulting in Russia moving forces in on Feb 24th, was just coincidence?
The overall cause of the War in Ukraine was the neocons in the US deciding to advance NATO by one more country, and to threaten Russia by placing missiles in Romania and Poland and promising to do so in Ukraine, even closer to Moscow. The triggering event was a big increase in the shelling of the principally Russian-speaking civilians in Donetsk, Luhansk and other civilian areas.
