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  • NATO expansion was a provocation. After the Cold War ended, the original rationale for the alliance—containing the Soviet Union— didn’t apply, so expanding Eastern was clearly an aggressive move to exploit a weakened Russia as Kissinger quite honestly explained in the PBS interview.

    From Russia’s perspective, this expansion was a threat. It’s faced multiple invasions from the West: Napoleon, the Nazis etc and clearly NATO’s movement toward its borders, the deployment of missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, and Western support for the ousting of allied governments would be seen as existential threats.

    Their reaction is rooted in history and security logic.