Bravo, a top effort of false truths , wrapped in an intellectual guise. The very person of would love to share a debate stage with. There are numerous holes in your arguments but they aren't obvious and big ones, you would do great as a political aide or running a campaign. When the truth doesn't matter of course.

I spent 15 years in the countries of the former Soviet Union and visited many times before that. Russia worried about NATO expansion? Really? Funny how NATO(including US) troops trained in Russia with the Russian army. Funny how there were even discussions about Russia joining NATO and the EU. BP, Chevron, Shell and Exxon were all doing massive joint ventures with Russian companies to bring western tech to the Russian oil industry. Russia had ceased to be an enemy and instead what a developing market for commerce. Even after the invasion of Georgia in 2008 which has Russian troops 80km from where my wife and kids are now, Obama offered Russia a "reset" in relations. Russia doesn't give two rats about NATO on its borders- it has had NATO in the Baltics on a border for ages. It has NATO Poland surrounding the enclave of Kaliningrad (occupied Konigsberg and I can call it that as my family is from there). I spent too many years under Putin and he and Erdogan copy each other. They were both fairly reasonable and hands off at first, but then they decided they wanted to stay in power forever. Putin needed a foe, a rallying cry, and needed the Church support so suddenly it was the evil, decadent west trying to turn Russian souls gay and get fat on McDonald's etc. He changed or showed his true colors, the west did not.