The whole point about provoking Russia with expanding NATO is missed. If I recall correctly, none of these countries was forced to join NATO - that was people w

The whole point about provoking Russia with expanding NATO is missed. If I recall correctly, none of these countries was forced to join NATO - that was people who feared russian imperialism. And, guess what, they were all right, as former Soviet Union attacked Chechnya in 1994, Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. There is no need to provoke Putin. The only thing he needs is assurance that nobody would care.