If NATO hadn't aggravated Russia, and goaded her into attacking, Russia would simply have continued her friendly trade with Europe and other parts of the world. How do we know? Because that's what her selling oil and gas and wheat and loads of other products to other nations was all about.
So, it's the US pushing other nations into sanctioning Russia, and then helping Ukraine bring Nazi's into their government to organize a military to fight Russia, and then pushing NATO into the area more and more, that is causing the trouble.
Boy oh boy there's a lot of mental gymnastics here performed. Well done my guy, that probably took a lot of efort.
On the geopolitical scale the US is a nuber one culprit, but saying that it's not the bullys fault for beating the crap out of you because you cam close to him is idiotic and stupid. And also, Russia has been full of Nazis for some time now and that's no news for us in Europe, so that narative is dumb. At best it nazis attacking nazis, but that as well is just mental gymnastics.
No mental gymnastics involved at all. All you have to do is look at what is happening.
What do you do when the bully comes to get you? Russia was sitting over in her corner of the world, happily trading many goods and wares with other countries, and then the bully, the US, came for her. And the bully brought his friends, NATO and the Nazi's.
The Nazi's in Russia couldn't overthrow Russia from within her, so they moved to Ukraine.The US is supporting them for money purposes... the 46 (more?) Wuhan-style labs they set up in the Ukraine.
The US doesn't remember that Russia and the USSR played a big part in putting down the Nazi's in WW2. They still know how to do it. If they didn't, Nazi's would have taken Russia over long ago.
Poor US and NATO. Wasting all that money in an effort they will probably lose at.