You brought full speed into this, not me.Oh boy.. you are speaking off the warshaw pact. It was the start. And yes they knew better that expanding to Baltic states etc will create problems.. they did anyways and if there was no eastern Ukraine situation they would have scooped Ukraine in a heartbeat. Don’t pick at words”full speed” or not. The OP said
NATO wasn’t Gona invade Russia.. and I replied it was not about the invasion ,but expansion
From what you are saying, NATO not disbanding in 1991 guaranteed that Russia would invade Ukraine, am I understanding that correctly?
Which size of NATO did it have to codify?
What other parts of the NATO treaty did it have to rewrite to appease Russia?
I'm just trying to figure out what you think the actual history of security alliances in Europe is?