Pure bunk, that is the propaganda ruse to garner support & hatred for Russia & Putin, period.
This conflict didn't start with Russian aggression, it started with NATO expansion aggression. NATO was started when the USSR existed because they were aggressively building an empire to combat the US empire that was rising up from the victory of WWII, shortly on the heels of WWI.
There was a period where we were the face of good, but power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. My country no longer resembles the country I was born into, sadly enough.
We lost our moral compass when we ejected the Lord from the public square. The debauchery has only continued to expand ever since, and the good is all but gone from the majority of Americans.
Right, which is why Putin didn't care about Finland joining NATO.
Ukraine is no threat to Russia. NATO is only a threat the way a bulletproof vest is a threat to a gun. The existence of a free & democratic Ukraine is a threat to *Putin* because its example shows prosperity & liberty are possible, in contrast with his imploding dictatorship.