NATO crossed the red-line they had been warned about for decades only after they had built and equipped an army in the Ukraine of 600,000 soldiers.
While at first Putin was trying for a ‘fight until the Ukraine negotiates’ strategy, it didn’t work. When he realized NATO will grind down to the last Ukrainian or NATO soldier fighting in the Ukraine, Russia switched to a war of attrition. Russia is losing soldiers but is confident the Ukraine will ‘run out’ of the resources to fight first. And so the deaths continue.
Utter nonsense.
The former Warsaw Pact states had every right to join NATO. They suffered for 40 years under Soviet Russian control. Putin can stick the “red lines” were the Sun don’t shine…
Ukraine built up a 600,000 man army and it turned out they needed it.
Putin was trying for a “capture Kyiv and force Ukraine to vassaldom “ tactic.
It failed
Nato didn’t expand or crossed “red-lines” the way you make it sound like.
The ex invaded Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, had been under Russian occupation for decades... they lived through hell. When the Soviet Russian system momentarily collapsed, those previously occupied nations suddenly regained their freedom. But at that point they had no army to protect themselves in case Russia decided to occupy them AGAIN...
That’s why all previously occupied European eastern countries by Russia ran to NATO for urgent protection.
Without NATO those eastern counters would already have been taken back by Russia. Proof : Ukraine wasn’t part of NATO - thus it was invaded by Russia!
Russia has no say in other nations way of life and how they manage their own defense systems.