How is joining a defensive alliance to stop Russia from invading you "bullying Russia"?
Why don't we compare the number of times Russia has recently invaded its neighbors with the number of times NATO has invaded Russia, shall we?
Why don't we compare the number of times Russia has recently invaded its neighbors with the number of times NATO has invaded Russia, shall we?
On the other side, why so limited question? Why not comparing the number of times NATO states invaded some country, and compare with the number of times Russia invaded some country. The relation would probably be somewhere between 10:1 and 100:1.
And btw, why do you call NATO a defensive alliance when it wasn’t involved in a defensive war, only in criminal aggression, if we use international law classification.
Not even close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
And the list only contains major armed conflicts, omitting violent crackdowns in occupied territories, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)