But look at the nations of Europe around Russia. How many of them are NATO nations? Loads.
Does Russia have an organization like Nato that it has spread around the US? No.
So, who is the aggressor? The one who can advertise the most. US media says Russia bad, bad, bad; US/Nato good, good, good. People don't even look or think. They simply believe the media.
If the NATO organization had not been created, then Europe would fall under the influence of Moscow. NATO is a roof for democratic Europe from Russia as an invading empire, which Reagan called the Evil Empire for a reason. If, after the fall of the communist regime, the West still hoped that the Russian people would choose a democratic path of development, then this was a big mistake, and I hope that now there is a chance to correct this mistake by ridding the World of the monster from the era of lizards. The Russian people with their relic worldview will certainly pay for all the Evil that comes from them and will pay with their beloved empire..
Here is where you are missing it. There are two kinds of invasion:
1. Forceful, with military and armaments;
2. Free trade, that is so good that nobody can resist.
Russia was doing #2, until the US did #1 against Russia - the US using Ukraine - starting in 2014.
Russia simply followed the US #1 activity with activity similar to #1, to protect itself and its people.
The reason why the US did the #1 is, Russia wound up being better at #2, and the US was losing money and trade.
Russia is simply defending itself and its people against the military advances made by the US as the US supplies Ukraine with troops and armament.
Russia attacked Ukraine, ruined itself. She can't escape retribution. For the Evil created by Russia, the payment will be high. She will pay with the empire.
The Soviet Union broke down in 1991. It was probably Russia's fault for being so heavy handed against people for many decades before. After all, it was mostly Russia that was the backbone of the Soviet Union.
So, all these nations got their freedom. Russia let them have their freedom. The fact that the US didn't take Russia over right at the fall of the USSR, shows that Russia had strength... strength that could have been used against many of these nations to take them back into a new USSR.
What did Ukraine do with her freedom? She turned it over to other countries. By 2014 Ukraine had turned so much of her freedom over to the US that the US was able to pull off a coup in the Ukraine government. The US took Ukraine over with that coup.
The people of Ukraine didn't want the coup. And it wasn't Russia that took them over. The US simply used a different kind of warfare - indirect, inside-government, warfare - than military warfare to take them over.
But it was Russia's fault, of course. Russia could have gone in their and stopped the US takeover of Ukraine back in 2014. But Russia didn't... because Ukraine wanted her freedom, and Russia was simply showing Ukraine that she, Ukraine, wasn't ready for freedom, because now she is a slave to the US.
When it started becoming too dangerous for Russia to have a US slave right next door, and when the Ukraine/slave started harming Russian people, Russia simply brought out into the open what the US was doing all along. That's what the Russian invasion was doing.
The US was using the Ukraine for a gun. The US was using its Ukrainian gun to shoot at Russia. Russia simply went in there to take the gun away from the US... so that the Ukrainian people could continue in their freedom. So far, Russia has released about 20% of the Ukrainian lands from US control. And, most of the people of those released area's are on Russia's side.
As long as the US maintains a Soviet-like fist-hold on the world's financial system, this war will last. So far, the US is only making Russia stronger by the silly things she (the US) is trying to do.