If you say Ukraine didn’t provoke the attack there’s no helping you. Substitute Mexico for Ukraine and America for Russia. Now tell me America would sit back and do nothing.
As proof we would do nothing look at the border invasion going on now. Russia had no fear of NATO other than it might curtail Russia’s criminal invasions. Remember the 24-year dictator said “Russia knows no borders.” It took a lot for the Swedes to cast off their beloved neutrality. Putin’s invasions of the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine did it.