The “NATO” is coming crowd is interesting. Before Putin invaded NATO was already on Russia’s border and what had happened? Nothing squat, in fact NATO was pretty disjointed and most countries were not living up to their spending requirements quite the opposite which is evident by how they have had to scramble to build up ammunition production capabilities.
If NATO gave a person of the year award Putin would be the hands down winner 2 years in a row
The only “threat” to Russia from NATO was a damper on putins dreams of a greater Russia
As a result of his actions not only is NATO living up to its spending requirements it is exceeding then and what was thought impossible is now not only possible it is happening Finland had joined NATO and Sweden soon will. Add to that Poland is creating a much more capable military and Ukraine already is.
Putin is a master strategist (for NATO)
NATO, with the help of the CIA, overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014 and installed a puppet for the express purpose of a proxy war with Russia. There’s a great article describing how it actually started earlier, in 2010, with Hillary Clinton, when the then gov leader wouldn’t lead the proxy war - wheels in motion.
Merkel has admitted that the only reason NATO agreed to Minsk II was to build up the army and provide weapons etc. to the Ukraine for this war. A french official confirmed it. NATO wasn’t peaceably on Russia’s border - it was arming for war to force regime change.