Other crap. Neither you crane, nor the United States, nor the West in general did anything that constituted a legitimate justification for Russia to invade Ukraine.
The motivation for the invasion was simple. Putin had the dream of restoring what he saw as the proper boundaries of Russia. Ukraine growing closer to the West and increasing its military capability meant that at some point, Russia would no longer be able to bully Ukraine, and he found that intolerable.
The myth tgat Russia itself was somehow threatened by the West or by the expansion of NATO is a joke. Putin knew perfectly well that neither NATO nor Ukraine was ever going to invade Russia. First, because he could see for himself that NATO's expenditures on military forces were dropping, and had been doing so for a long time. And second, Russia's nuclear deterrent meant that the West would never risk invading Russia proper.
The only "threat" to Russia wasn't to Russia proper, but only to its ambitions for expansion. He and his propaganda simply played the "we feel threatened" card because he knew there were plenty of useful idiots in the West who would buy into it.
Some of those useful idiots are here on FR.