Its Russia’s Geopolitical Sovereignty vs. NATO Expansion
The West’s narrative frames Russia as the aggressor, but from a realist standpoint, NATO’s eastward expansion since the 1990s directly threatened Russia’s security sphere. Promises made to Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” were broken repeatedly as former Warsaw Pact countries and even Soviet republics were absorbed. Russia views this as encirclement, […]