More than "a say".
He wanted NATO to rewrite their charter for him.
Ukraine didn't join NATO.
Putin's argument was that since there was a coup, he hadn't signed anything with the new state, so it no longer applied.
We've been over this, notty.
You have preemptively decided that all the negotiations were invalid.
Total capitulation to everything Russia demanded was the only way to stop the war, according to you, and since Biden wouldn't do that, Putin had no choice but to go to war.
I do appreciate that you have decided to characterize Putin and Russia as the armed criminal gang in this situation.