it's not agression, it's those state's will to host NATO bases, its none of Russia's business. Russia has mil bases in other countries too, like in Belarus. Is that an act of agression as well?
how is that agression? it's Ukraine's business. Was Russia's backing of previous Ukrainian regime an agression?
yeah after Russia annexed Ukrainian clay, eg. ACTUAL AGRESSION. Russian definition of "agression" is very assymetric it seems.
lol the treaties that were signed contained the smallest, most minute details, you must be silly thinking that they "forgot" or "overlooked" putting "no NATO expansion" in there if it was actually part of agreement.
Also in it's last days Soviet Union was on its knees, shitting it's pants. NATO (or rahter USA) could have had the place destabilised, balkanized and consumed by civil war with minimal effort, and then swoop in and take whatever it wanted, if it really intended to attack. Yet instead they helped stabilize it. So much for NATO just waiting to annex Russia's endless uninhabited permafrost.