Russia is rightly defending themselves against this. There was a verbal promise made to Putin that there would be no NATO expansion in Europe against the East and thus against Russia – which has been shamefully broken. This is the crux of it and how we discuss it with normies. This falls squarely on Biden and his cronies.
Here is what was said at the conference:
The far-reaching assurances were made in Washington by the American Secretary of State ‘that we are not willing and there is no intention in Europe to extend NATO’s defence area further east’.“
These assurances were given verbally to Russia at the security conference in Paris, France 1990