That’s a selective misreading of history. Ukraine had a president who was a compliant stooge to Putin and who tolerated the Russian invasion of Crimea. Zelinski was elected democratically to replace the corrupt stooge and started making moves to join NATO and the EU. Putin invaded to stop the NATO expansion. The result? Russia is a pariah nation and NATO expanded to Finland and Sweden. Putin’s aggression caused this 100% and if Europeans understandably see a threat they want to stop, a couple hundred Euros per citizen is a small price to pay. If Ukraine wants to join the EU, it will have to hold elections once the Russian dictator’s invading forces have left its sovereign territory. This is really not complicated.