Vitalii, you don't get to arbitrarily decide that the issue starts in 2021-22.

What specifically changed that led to this war?

- Ukraine putting trying for NATO membership into its constitution

- Ukraine not fulfilling Minsk II - leading to 14k deaths in Donbas in 8 years

- Ukraine wanting to join an aggressive to Russia military alliance (NATO)

- Ukraine overturning democratic elections that resulted in pro-Russia or at least Russia-neutral leaders in 2004 and then 2014. 2014 was a violent coup. Since 2014 Ukraine is dominated by the US.

- NATO training troops in-country (10k+ / year) since 2014

- Ukraine outlawing the Russian language

- 3+ billion in NATO arms into Ukraine since 2014

- CIA, MI6, and NATO troops training with Ukraine in Ukraine and other NATO nations since 2014

- Ukraine stating in Munich 2022 (two weeks before the invasion) that Ukraine should think about getting nukes. This after the head of the IAEA said that Ukraine probably had enough fissible material from their nuclear power plants to make an atomic bomb.

- Ukraine massing 80-120k troops on the border to the Donbas in late 2021, early 2022

- Ukraine increasing bombing of the Donbas (from the troops from the last point by orders of magnitude in the early weeks of Feb 2022. This info from the Vienna-based OSCE.

I think that's a pretty long list of serious NATO related issues, and Donbas related issues, since 2004. I could go back to 1991 and the post-USSR breakup, but this list is long enough.

Does this mean Russia shold have marched in? I don't know enough about what else could have been done to avoid MORE war. This war didn't start in 2022. It started in 2014, with a setup in 2004