Ah yes, the old "Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine" defense. Along the lines of "Germany was provoked into invading Poland".
Scenario 1) US disseminates bad intelligence and invades a sovereign country. Iraq War.
Scenario 2) US disseminates bad intelligence and arms / militarily supports a sovereign country which is being invaded. Ukraine.
Nobody is remotely considering a scenario where the US is saying "Russia might invade Ukraine, so we're going to invade Russia."
A defensive war is by definition the fault of the aggressor. Because they are literally on land that is yours.
They are on their own against Putin's Russia.
"We didn't plan to do this, we stated this so many times in all media, but what we said they are going to do is so bad, that we had to take actions... Totally not our fault, everyone can see that..."