Yes.

NATO was incorporated to defend against the USSR. I question why NATO wasn't dissolved when the USSR disintegrated - grift?, greed? MIC?

Soviet premier Joseph Stalin chose to test Western resolve by implementing a blockade against West Berlin, which was then under joint U.S., British, and French control but surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany. This Berlin Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of conflict, although a massive airlift to resupply the city for the duration of the blockade helped to prevent an outright confrontation. .

The only reason to add Ukraine to NATO was to incite Russia to war. It would be the same if China put military assets in Alberta or Iran in Coahuila, Mexico. The USA would be pissed.