> He lied.[0] No one wants to look like a fool.
Your oft-cited link doesn't support the "100% NATO said they wouldn't expand" and it's a verbal statement that wasn't even ratified anywhere.
Unlike, you know, multiple treaties Russia has with, say, Ukraine.
But if you're holding verbal agreements in such high esteem, Putin himself said he doesn't care if Ukraine joins NATO.
> Pro-Western Ukrainian president submitted request to join NATO in 2008 and the NATO response was positive.
You mean "just some the NATO members were positive and within the country the request was so unpopular that it led to public protests".
> before 2014 there was significant minority that favored joining
My statement was definitely an exaggeration. However support for joining NATO:
- before 2014 was hovering around 20% on a good day, and the request to join NATO was met with strong opposition and public protests.
- after 2014 support spiked to 50 and then to 70, and then slowly subsided. Gee I wonder why
- After 2022 it's been around 80%. I wonder why. Truly it's all the fault of the expansionist NATO.
> Now please tell me why the security concerns of these countries has to be respected and Russia's security concerns don't
Russia's "security concerns": "if you subhumans don't do exactly what we say, we invade you and subjugate you, you are not a real country anyway".
Now tell me, who exactly is responsible for public opinion in Ukraine turning from "nope, we don't want NATO", to "yes, we overwhelmingly want to be in NATO"? I mean, you seem to absolve Russia of any and all responsibility.
> Russia has never supported any coups in Europe or in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Ahahahhahahahahahahahha. This is the literal quote of what I said: "Russia is midwifing crises and elections actoss Europe and countries like Georgia and Azerbaijan". If you claim that Russia is not complicit in this, I don't know what to tell you.
But sure, in your eyes Russia does nothing, never gets involved in everything, and that 4-year war it's waging against anither country is totally and absolutely justified because Russia.