As opposed to your propaganda? The neocons know very well of ancestral hate the ex Soviet block countries have for Russia, and realized they could be easily played as useful pawns on the geo-political chessboard. So they chose Zelensky to be the pied piper to get those Ukie monkeys onboard and like the fools they are, the dumb Ukies fell for it. Now we have people like you on here trying to draw us into your ancestral squabbles, no thanks. America first mean keep us out of it.
Even with all that happened, Ukraine was never a threat to Russia. Face the facts, this is nothing other than a land-grab by Putin in his attempt to re-establish the borders of imperial Russia. All else is smoke.