No it does not. Agency and responsibility are not the same thing. Russia can be responsible for an unjustified invasion and at the same time it is possible that

No it does not. Agency and responsibility are not the same thing. Russia can be responsible for an unjustified invasion and at the same time it is possible that the west also knowingly acted in a way that undermined a russian dictator and this became the root cause of the problem. You people are on HN, why don't you understand the concept of the diffefence between cause and root cause? Are you this blinded by partisan politics?