Russia says no fucking way are you going to put this next to our border
“Put”… what exactly “next to our border”? Because you only hear the Russian bullshit about “NATO bases” and possibly “biolabs” (but I doubt you were retarded enough to believe that one).
But you know what? Ukraine already had neutrality (no NATO) hardcoded in their constitution in 2014, when Russia first invaded it. Russia invaded not “because of NATO” but specifically because Ukraine was not in NATO.
And when Finland and Sweden joined NATO - again, because of Russian invasion on Ukraine - then Putin said, guess what… he doesn’t have any problem with that! So before, he unrolled a whole drama about “NATO on his borders” when Ukraine wasn’t even going to join it… and when Sweden and Finland joined (the latter bordering Russia) it suddenly was no problem. Silly, isn’t it?
So yeah, Putin definitely has a problem with something at his border, but it’s not NATO.