as you misunderstand all things you misunderstand this ........NATO exopanded because countries REUESTED to join for fear of russian aggression ....and just btw .....Ukraine was not a NATO member .....and was not being allowed to be
to illustrate just how much eastern bloc countries fear NATO .....Poland are planning on spending a whopping 5% of GDP next year on defence .....they are not preoared to be another Ukraine and are making sure russia sees how difficult they would be to attack .
Certainly putin hates NATO ......because it stops him from exerting influence on his neighbours .....it is NOT becaiuse of security . and putin has no intrinsic right to control his neighbours .....US doesn't , Mexico and Canada are quite free to do their own thing .
Russ security is assured by the nukes and nations have never once threatened russian security since www2 . Russia proves this by taking almost all troops from the NATO border at present and is confident no NATO attack will come and also removing air defense systems from the brder and Kaliningrad ......this PROVES there never was a security concern by russia about NATO .
But strategicaly russia has lost big time in this war in many ways including having Finland join and double the NATO border as well as ,(together with Sweden) making the Baltic a NATO lake as well as destoying the significance for russia of the Suwalki gap .
You parrot this nonsense that propagandists have told you and choose to accept something that is at complete varaince with the actual facts of the matter and is EASILY disproved .
