I wouldn't go that far - If you're goaded into doing retarded shit by someone, you're still a retard for doing it. The US is responsible for providing the incentive and means, but the retarded Ukes took it, got into a war over it, and now are fighting to the last hohol over it. Coulda surrendered in the first few days and been done with it, and "Their handlers wouldn't let him" hardly counts when those handlers were expecting it to all collapse in a few days.
Hard disagree.
Let's start with 2008, Bush Jr. against all other NATO members objection, offers membership plans into NATO to UA.
Fast forward to 2014 "Revolution of Dignity" as wikipedia calls it, aka the maidan coup facilitated by the US. I'd refer back to Vicky Nuland's "Fuck the EU" phone call where they discuss the new UA government. Poroshenko and the ATO, having their asses handed to them, minsk agreements that were supposed to rearm UA and prep an invasion to retake crimea & donbass.
Totally not CIA plant Zelinski ran on the "I'll reconcile the UA with russia" platform. Which he 180°-d and went in full retard, falling in line with US interests and "ideologically motivated" units like right sektor & azov.
We can see, that the average borschtnigger did not want this war et all, voted against it at every chance, but subsequent "democratic" governments still managed to provoke it.
2022 Istambul peace talks, where RU and UA was mostly ready to settle the conflict was scuttled by BoJo either because of eternal anglo faggotry or on behalf of the US.
This whole op was planned by the US way before the first trump admin to corner russia and put anti-ballistic missiles on the border, upsetting MAD and subsequently enabling the USA to subjugate russia.
The ukrainian people (not the government, which I refuse to call ukrainian) are either do not want this war or was brainwashed / intimidated into complying by SBU/Azov types.
Furthermore, each of these beautiful civilizations did their part in fighting off the filthy Middle Eastern and Asian hordes. Charlemagne, Charles Martel, and Clovis each did their part in forcibly converting Muslims into Christians with their hammers. The Romans kept the Sassanids at Bay. The Greeks spat in the face of the Persians. The Spaniards expelled the filthy Saracens and their Jewish sugar daddies
+Hungary protected west europe from the ottoman empire and tatars for half a millenia.
Edit:
there still would be ways to fight back, even if not in a direct way
IE by going AWOL/surrendering to the russians / fleeing conscription. Which they do.
Also there are a bunch of "conspirators" in RU friendly cities who spy for the russians.