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One side: Votes democratically to join a military alliance.
The other side: Invades nations, commits cultural genocide and war crimes.
Tankies: It's the same thing 🤷♂️
Citation needed
Which part? Here's a wiki that has all the genocide evidence in it with sources. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine)
Here's an article on how nations join NATO, democratically. (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/7/12/how-does-a-country-join-nato-2)
Here's an article about Russia attempting to annex parts of Ukraine. (https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126020895/russia-ukraine-putin-annexation)
You're rude but I agree with most of what you said. The West has been encroaching on Russia for years.
No such promise was ever made.
Independent nations can decide for themselves if they want to join a defensive treaty or not, Russia doesn't get to decide that for them.
Calm down.
If you believe that Russia feels threatened by NATO then please explain why they're withdrawing troops from the NATO borders, down to as low as 20%.