I think you mean NATO’s botched 30 year eastward expansion....which Putin has correctly..and much belatedly... responded to.
Kudos to Vlad for his patience with the evil US/UK monarchist alliance. He’s the adult in the room. The Founders never wanted the US to be “leader of the free world”, nor did they ever want an alliance with the UK.
Go cuddle your Donald Rumsfeld teddy bear!
Putin is a tool.
Headlines!
Oil hit $140//bl in 2013 and Vlad invaded Crimea in 2014.
Oil was up 75% under Biden in 2021, he invades Ukraine in 2022.
oil hit $100/bbl in 2007, he invaded Georgia in 2008.
It’s NATO encroachment to blame!
“NATO’s botched 30 year eastward expansion”
NATO actually succeeded in expanding Eastward in the last thirty years - 16 more members.
The credit for that really has to go to Russia however. Without Russia’s aggressive history and threatening behavior, few if any would have gone to all the trouble and expense to join NATO.