@RuiSeabra You seem to have forgotten that Russia and NATO were allies at the beginning of the millennium, with Russia actually wanting to join NATO. Also, NATO has only expanded once Russia started annexing countries left and right. Btw, even if Russia was able to conquer Ukraine, how would that help their NATO situation? My country, Slovakia is part of NATO, so is Poland and Hungary. If they were worried about bordering NATO, getting closer to three NATO countries is stupid.