I think you're reading out of my stances what you want to read out. I never said Ukraine had no material reasons to seek out NATO, or that the West didn't directly influence Ukraine through Euromaidan. There's no such thing as a "pure" movement with 2 actors or more, but there are primary causes and contradictions, and cascading secondary causes and contradictions.

As a Marxist-Leninist, I look at conflicts through Dialectical Materialism, which inherently acknowledges the opposing forces at play in contradictions, and their linked nature. My point is mostly that putting the blame on the whims of Putin, and not on the material and complicated web of events and material interests of all countries involved, does nothing to explain how this could have been avoided, nor how it will end, nor what is realistically feasible.