The US started the war. US Diplomat George Kennan warned around 2002 that if NATO was continually moved toward Russia, as the US promised not to do, there would be war. What if Russia placed nuclear missiles and bioweapon labs in Toronto? What would the US do?
You ignored post 42 and went off on other more vague opinion topics, for instance 2002 when Putin was fine with Ukraine choosing to join NATO if they wanted to, since they were their own nation.
“The US started the war.”
No the war was started by Russia. Nato moved closer to Russia as a result of their actions in Ukraine and not the other way around.