[BobL]

“NATO weapons didn’t need to be on the border with Russia”

Perhaps then they should have agreed to what Putin was asking for and NATO would not be in this quagmire.

[adorno]

Perhaps then they should have agreed to what Putin was asking for and NATO would not be in this quagmire.

That's not how aggressive countries work, and Russia has been an aggressor since, forever.

They were looking for the slightest excuse that they could find, but they used the NATO card as their excuse, but NATO or not, Putin was going to invade. What excuse did Putin use to take over Crimea? NATO? Nope! They were going to do it anyway. Georgia? What excuse did they use there.

IOW, wake up and smell the aggression and the imperialist desires of Putin.