Your field of view is too narrow and historically short.
Putin acted out of the long historical Russian view that is literally hundreds of years in the making. His choice was now or maybe never
NATO paranoia is Napolean and Hitler all over again.
You believe that history repeats itself, but at best it may rhyme somewhat, but it never actually repeats itself.
NATO paranoia is Napoleon and Hitler all over again.
Now you are denying history, as both of those invasions cost Russia dearly in human lives.
Keep talking. You are exposing your utter ignorance. It also shows you callous disdain for the Russian civilians who moat have little influence as to what their country does.
Since you ignore the the comparison of nations who despise our nation arrayed themselves along one or more borders, and how you would react if your nation's leader did nothing.
You are a complete hypocrite who hates Russia and blames Russia regardless of facts that paints a far different picture than the one you accept, because you are stuck on stupid, due to the fac5 that your field of view is too narrow and factual wrong, mainly because you rely on the past to explain the current. You short-sighted narrow-minded hypocrite.