Nope. The West started it by giving long range missiles to Ukraine. Russia has had them all along; had Putin wanted to, he could have used them to destroy Ukraine long ago.
“Nope. The West started it by giving long range missiles to Ukraine. “
The west only gave Ukraine the means to help equal the playing field, equal the response to Putin’s agression. Putin does not have some “right” to invade Ukraine and then call any equal response from Ukraine an “escalation”. The ONLY “escalation” has been the entire Russian invasion.