When the leadership in Ukraine pushed forward an Association Agreement with the European Union starting in late 2012 (a key time for American "diplomacy" and involvement in Ukraine as well), they were essentially wedging their foot in the door to join NATO. It would have been inevitable at that point had the Agreement been signed. It was not signed in 2013, and not long after the preparations for war began, based on US assurances of involvement and financial support down the road.
Massive money began exchanging hands between the Biden family and oligarchs and govts in China, Russia, Romania, and Ukraine in 2014. At the same time destabilization began in Donbas. The media funding, as it turns out, began at this same time, and the Ukrainian govt began shelling Donbas when that region claimed independence from the Ukrainian govt over a recent history of govt abuse and lack of representation.
When the entire body of work is looked at, this war was initiated by many parties over the next 7 years. Oligarchs and intelligence agencies in Russia, Ukraine, China, the US, and other countries were all involved, but the Biden family and USAID were the funnels through which the giant shell game of money laundering and influence changed hands.
If the Biden administration and the Ukrainian govt had been willing to do so, the war could have been averted through negotiations. It doesn't seem that was ever the plan, because NATO and the EU need Ukraine to join them. The EU is struggling because it has no resources and is dependent on trade with other countries, as it has lost influence (control of and in) many countries around the world that provided resources to them at a seriously under-market value.
It can't sustain itself without Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and for that reason is being overrun with people from those regions, as even the US is dealing with. Rather than trying to fix the systems, they have pushed for more control of the populations, and have so far been very successful.
If USAID money wasn't pushed into Ukraine, there would have been no war.
Ukraine couldn't defend itself against Russia and the Donbas region would have become independent. A liberated Donbas is not in anyone's best interests. Not Russian, Ukrainian, nor the EU. Internationally, freedom is not in the interests of our Intel agencies nor the Dem party. There's no insane profits to be fraudulently obtained. There's no way to keep wages in developing countries artificially low.
The bottom line in all of this, however, is that Ukraine could've stopped there from being any conflict. So could the Biden regime. So could the EU. So could NATO. Russia was not going to allow Donbas to be shelled, nor allow NATO to breach the long held agreement of not setting up shop on their border.
The truth IS that an Independent Donbas WOULD most likely have allowed Ukraine to join NATO. So why not allow their independence?