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NATO has escalated tensions and encircled Russia, and we in the West must continue to point this out. But Russia is not concerned about NATO for security concerns. Russia is concerned about NATO because it has a rival imperial project and NATO gets in the way of that.
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I'm seeing a lot of people pretending NATO is innocent and bringing it up at all is playing cover for Russia, as well as others pretending that, had it not been for NATO, Russia would've totally left Eastern Europe alone.
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This is the problem of trying to use one imperial power to contain the other - either trying to contain Russia with NATO or contain NATO with Russia. In the end you get neither really contained, both expanding uncontrollably, and war in the overlapping spheres of influence