The article I read doesn't suggest that Ukraine "caused the war" - it was written in 2021 after all, prior to the Russian invasion. And indeed the article ackn

The article I read doesn't suggest that Ukraine "caused the war" - it was written in 2021 after all, prior to the Russian invasion. And indeed the article acknowledges that there has been conflict since 2014 including the civil war in the east. Rather, it suggests that this development is an escalation by Ukraine that could result in a "full-scale war" or "all-out war," something that would be new. Or "war over Crimea," while until this point Ukraine had been relatively acquiescent to its annexation