Hard to see that Putin’s CONTINUING attacks on the peripheries of Russia are not a more compelling prologue & predicate to this potential. In 2008 there was the Russo-Georgian war that still has a partial Russian Military occupation.
Ukraine attacks did not just start in February of 2022. Putin/Russia have been attacking Ukraine since 2024 or so, both by proxy and by wandering soldiers with flag patches who just happened to be wandering west WITH WEAPONS!
NATO (corrupt Obama gang) has been running Ukraine since 2012. I’m sure they’ve been a perfect neighbor. Imagine Mexico and Russia announcing that Mexico is about to become the thirtieth Warsaw Pact nation, Britain and Canada being 28 and 29. This would be announced by Putin and the new Russian installed Mexican stooge president. Imagine that happening in 2017. What would Trump have done? That is a 100% correct analogy.