This article is load of crap. We’re supposed to believe the writer when he states that NATO expansion is a legitimate threat to Russia and the reason for Russian behavior, as if NATO invasion of Russia was inevitable. The actions of Russia today — expansionist — are historically consistent with this country and justify all of the West’s mistrust. If you want to know what we’re dealing with read The Gulag Archipelago. Putin is cut from that cloth. Alas, there are always defenders and appeasers of tyrants.
I have read all three volumes of Gulag giving me insight into the Russian psyche including Ukraine and the corrosion of the West under the weight of exported Marxist ideology.
That corroded, politically correct, woke West now rails against Russia and sees the post-Communist Russia as evil.
NATO should have been dissolved in the mid 90’s and not expanded. There would have been no Putin if that had happened.