I think that's fair, but it's not like the former communist countries were forced at gunpoint to join NATO. Russia may not like it (and I'd imagine I wouldn't

I think that's fair, but it's not like the former communist countries were forced at gunpoint to join NATO. Russia may not like it (and I'd imagine I wouldn't were I in the same position) but invading countries because of their own sovereign decisions is unlikely to be successful in the long-term.