Peter Hitchens is right except I do not think America wanted the invasion of 2022

'I cannot think of any important threat to European security since the end of the Cold War, apart from the relentless American goading of Russia which eventually achieved its desired end in 2022.' Peter Hitchens 30 minutes ago 

America has been the threat to European peace for decades. 

Neville Chamberlain told Joseph Kennedy that the Americans were the reason we went to war with Germany, but that's another and murky story.