Fact: NATO is a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to protect our member states.
First, someone famous wrote "all empires are defensive."
Second, look at where Russia's ports are. Either they get frozen in in the winter or they can be blockaded by Sweden or Denmark or Turkey or Morocco or Italy or Gibralter or Tunisia.
So this pathetic pleading of ignorance - we don't know what you are talking about is disingenuous nonsense.
You can claim you aren't going to pay in attention to a whining lunatic from a thrid rate power that has more nuclear weapons of more different capabilities than anyone else on the face of the earth, but you can't argue that he is simply misinformed and that NATO hasn't expanded to remove any buffer between Russia and NATO and that it isn't in fact encircling Russia.
I didn't intend to steal cookies from the cookie jar pleads the 10 year old kid.
So the world and NATO are somehow responsible for Russia being in a deep freeze and that should excuse them for taking ice free assets by force if they want to? I fail to see any merit in your statement. ukraine has no ports so does that make them free to attack Poland to get one?
Russia is free to be part of the world of civil nations if they are civil. Not without that or until.
Their leader is behaving as a brute and a bully just as I would be if I attacked my neighbor for proposing to ally with his neighbor.
NATO has never attacked anyone, started a war or taken territory.