Expanding NATO eastward is something even Biden warned would not be accepted by the Russians in 1997 as did many other experts.
Why they hell would they tolerate a heavily-armed NATO country in their own backyard, one with biolabs with deadly pathogens in them?
We sure as hell wouldn't tolerate the Russian or Chinese aligning with Mexico, arming it and operating biolabs with deadly pathogens in them. We won't and shouldn't tolerate Chinese military bases in the Solomon Islands.
But, people like you want one standard for us and another for them. You expect them to rollover and take what we wouldn't. It's an insane foreign policy and is endangering our national security.
Trump would have done the same as he did in Syria, when he annhilated over 200 Russian Spetznaz Wagner guys.
Russia broke the rules and they paid the price, via Trump.
Expanding East is really former East Bloc enslaved nations coming West. That is the wages of authoritarian enslavement of countries. Russia lost the Cold War...we won. Get over it.
Russia has now: 1. Strengthen and united NATO with several doubling their spending on defense. 2. Have even more armor from NATO on their borders. 3. Weakened Russia diplomatically, financially and militarily.
Great job by Putin.,