“Russia cannot allow NATO as a next door neighbor. They’ll nuke it first.”
Then why hasn’t Russia nuked NATO already? There are currently FIVE NATO countries on the border of Russia proper, and soon to be six once Finland becomes a member). Those five have been on Russia’s borders for years.
“Those five have been on Russia’s borders for years.”
Disregarding the Kaliningrad satelite and those borders with Poland and Lithuania: 3- Norway, eastern Latvia and Estonia.
That’s not Western centered “Europe” or the US sphere.
A new memeber Finland has been a non-entity forever- but stil raises russian eyebrows asNATO expansion.
The threat is the highway into Russia through a US influenced Ukraine.
Why not just leave them the phook alone? Let the newly Muslim-overrun Europe deal with it.
ChiComs in the new Lula run Brazil is a much a bigger theat.