All actions and decisions led to all other decisions. Choosing one is impossible to do with accuracy.
For example: if Catelyn hadn't arrested Tyrion, Ned's leg wouldn't have been broken. That would have changed the war completely, as he would have led the company against the intitial invasion by Ser Gregor Clegane.
BUT...if Littlefinger hadn't fingered Tyrion in the first place, Catelyn wouldn't have arrested Tyrion. Ned's leg wouldn't have been broken.
Or if Jaime hadn't thrown Bran out of the tower in the first place none of it would have happened...and so on...the exact shape of things would have been basically different if any single detail had changed...
Cherry picking one event just shows prejudice. How can people blame Catelyn but NOT blame Littlefinger? Or Jaime, for that matter. Or Joffrey for sending the assassin after Bran...? Or even Bran for climbing the tower in the first place against his mother's orders?
No matter what, there was going to be a war in WEsteros.
Make no mistake. Blaming a single event is fruitless.
Littlefinger and Varys both were both manipulating things towards that, although it seems Littlefinger was pushing for it a little earlier than Varys; but Varys also needed the realm unstable too, so Dany and the Dothraki could invade and Aegon and the Golden Company could sweep in and save the day...
With these powerful minds working to destabilize the kingdom it was going to happen regardless of any single event.
Only the exact shape of the war changes with any given change. But the conflict still exists.
Westeros descends into civil war No. Matter. What. Period.
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