It's certainly arguable, and in fact someone posted a twitter thread with a bunch of people making the case, that the USA's initiative in expanding NATO to include the Baltic states in the late 90's meant that a conflict of this type was inevitable. Of course the counterpoint to that is that the alternative is that if you have to leave a bunch of countries in the same position as Belarus to keep the bear asleep, thereby abandoning those populaces to poverty and authoritarianism, that's an intolerable situation.
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