“This is BS. Putin wanted peace,”
You’re right, this is BS because Putin didn’t want peace, he wanted to recreate the glory days of the Soviet Union.
“There was no mass build up of troops on the borders.”
Nah, he just sent troops in white trucks with unmarked uniforms to illegally annex territory from sovereign nations.
“Putin wanted one thing, and that was no NATO membership for Ukraine”
Wrong again. Your boi Putin wanted the old Soviet Union, and he wanted the prevent Ukraine from having ECONOMIC ties to the EU and the west. His puppet Yanukovych under pressure from Putin reversed his decision to accept economic ties with the West.