What complete self-serving nonsense. All that happened before Russia's invasion was diplomatic maneuvering. The Russians were engaged in it as much as the U.S. and NATO. Case in point: Russia's pressure on Yanukovych to repudiate the EU-Ukraine agreement and seek closer ties with Russia. None of what happened before either 2014 or 2022 justified Russia's two invasions. Russia, and Russia alone, started this war with those invasions.
@Petrosius So Russia meddling in Ukraine pre 2014 is bad but Obama/Nuland meddling in 2014 is good?