>>510998Because Putin has stated for years that his "red line" that he doesn't want the west to cross is getting the countries at its borders to join NATO. However in 2014 USA/NATO couped ukraine, began giving money and weapons and training to fascisats in Ukraine, and have been slowly escalating hostilities with Russia. This reached a boiling point with Ukraine declaring that it will officially join NATO. NATO has always been an imperialist tool of encirclement. They were established after WW2 to "keep America in, the Russians out, and the Germans down". Even after the USSR dissolved and the Russian federation was born, hostility of NATO continued because American capitalism needs boogeymen and needs perpetual war to feed its crumbling economy. Liberals will say this is paranoid/untrue, but so be it.