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How funny that the USA tells Russia that a NATO-member Ukraine on their border would not be a threat to them yet if Russia has military in Venezuela the USA considers that a red line:

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article257290222.html

The USA can enforce red lines all over the world, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Monroe Doctrine. Russia can’t have a red line on its border, 300 miles from Moscow. We brutally imposed our will on Vietnam for a decade in order to try to stop the first domino from falling 10,000 miles away. Russia is fighting like hell to prevent the last domino from falling.

And China with the Solomon Islands.
The two countries signed a security pact.

"How funny that the USA tells Russia that a NATO-member Ukraine on their border would not be a threat to them yet if Russia has military in Venezuela the USA considers that a red line:"

Sounds like the reasons of liberals, as it is utterly ignores that Venezuela has no need of Russian aid to protect it from the US - which country saved them from speaking German or Russian - while the reason for NATO is that Russia has been a military threat to former countries it once ruled, and those it would if it could. But maybe you want to defend Stalin and successors.

NATO countries like the map they have now better than an older one.

https://countrymapss.blogspot.com/2014/01/nato-countries-map-1949.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupations_by_the_Soviet_Union

Russia has a history of repeated invasions of other countries as well as military assistance against the West, and not in order to liberate and rebuild them as with the US. Thus NATO is warranted, and Putin - who longs for Soviet glory - has simply provided more evidence as to why, while insolently playing victim.

Countries invaded [including interventions or military assistance like Vietnam] by Soviet Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation

Estonia 1917

Latvia 1918

Lithuania 1918

Finland 1918

Poland 1918

Belarus 1918

Ukraine 1918

Georgia 1920

Azerbaijan 1920

Armenia 1920

Moldova 1918

Central Asia 1918

Mongolia 1921

Georgia 1924

Estonia 1924

Afghanistan 1929

China 1929

Japan 1938

Poland 1939

Finland 1939

Estonia 1940

Latvia 1940

Lithuania 1940

Romania 1940

Iran 1942 (Joint Soviet-British invasion)

Ukraine and Belarus 1944

Bulgaria 1944

Hungary 1944

Yugoslavia 1944

Albania 1944

Poland 1944

The Baltic States 1944

Germany 1944 [with the West]

Tuva 1944

Japan 1945

China 1945

Korea 1950

East Germany 1953

Hungary 1956

Vietnam 1960

Czechoslovakia 1968

China 1969

Israel 1969

Ethiopia 1974

Angola 1975

Afghanistan 1979 Georgia 1989

Baltic States 1990

Georgia 1991

Azerbaijan 1991

Moldova 1992

Tajikistan 1992 Northern Caucasus 1992 [Chechnya, etc.]

War of Dagestan 1999 Second Chechen War 1999–2009

Georgia 2008

Insurgency in the North Caucasus 2009–2017

Ukraine 2014

Syria 2015

Central African Republic Civil War 2018–present

Ukraine 2022

Sources: https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/soviet-and-russian-invasions-since-1917/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia