My mistake on the dates, but that still doesn’t change my position that the US intentionally fomented this war to shut down Nordstream 2 and to thwart any further European economic integration with Russia and Asia. And we played Ukraine in order to do this, leaving their country in tatters.
That is like blaming self defense classes for injuries suffered by a rape victim, and the rape itself on a women's clothing store for selling too revealing an outfit, and the rapist as prompted by the promiscuity of hip hop songs. Of course, that overlooks the point that the proximate cause of a rape is a rapist. And the sole proximate cause of Ukraine's suffering is the invasion by Russia.