Putin started that Georgian war, come on.
This is that aggression against the near-abroad thats his modus operandi.
He could have let everything alone and minded his own business. The good neighbor thing, that does not require airstrikes and tank columns.
Nope he didn’t. Read the Tagliavini report by OSCE. It is positively anti-Russian but makes clear that none of the Georgian and Pentagon arguments regarding the start of war are true.