If Russia were that worried about NATO they wouldn't have drawn down all of their troops bordering NATO countries and sent them to Ukraine. It's all about the oil and natural gas under those regions. Russia can't allow Ukraine to develop it's oil and gas or it will usurp Russia's European marketplace.How would the US respond if Russia and China started amassing troops and infrastructure in Mexico?
Russia has always been very clear about what they would do if nato tried to engulf them. NATO did it anyway.
This is all theater of the absurd.
The west created this conflict and you are buying their framing of it.
We started this shit. Nobody is saying Russia are the good guys here, but you need to understand that they aren't the bad guys either. I don’t think they had much of a choice in their actions, they had to back up what they'd been saying for years. NATO/The West kept pushing and pushing. Any reasonable leader would push back hard.
All Russia has accomplished concerning NATO is to cause Finland and Sweden to join NATO.