RUSSIA: PROVOKED OR UNPROVOKED IS THIS THE REAL QUESTION?

We have a major brainwashing against Russia for the Ukrainian war in the mainstream media without understanding how we arrived at this stage where we are speaking of a Nuclear War like it was a joke.
We need to understand the historical facts and strategies played by a few players that brought us to this conflict which is no longer a local war but becoming a Global Nuclear catastrophe where the human race could vanish from this planet.
We will need to analyze from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger to Victoria Nuland about policies and strategies for Russia regarding NATO’s expansion and Ukraine. George Bush initially understood the red line about NATO’s expansion of Ukraine for Russia. The US lied and did not keep its promises about NATO’s expansion to Russia. Why are we surprised about the Russian attack on Ukraine? They knew very well that Putin would give a very strong response.