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When the USSR fell, Reagan promised Gorbechev that NATO would not expand. What's the point of NATO when there was no more USSR/Warsaw pact, it was "The End of History" after all.... Well NATO kept expanding East, closer and closer to Russian borders. Western propaganda will tell you NATO is a defensive alliance, but it's totally an offensive alliance to project US-Western power, just look at how they destroyed Libya.
With the NED/CIA maidan coup in Ukraine, Ukraine turned into a hotbed for Russophobia. The Ukraine military was getting trained by NATO, and there were talk of Ukraine joining NATO. That was the red line for Russia.
nato even predates the pact. it is and always has been the "fuck russia club"