Nobody forbids Ukraine from being a free sovereign state striving to share European values, and maybe even in the distant future becoming a member of the EU. But this was not enough for Ukraine, and it wants to join NATO, and this is an existential security threat for Russia. if Ukraine doesn’t care about this, so much the worse for it.
So Russia doesn't want to border a NATO country, so it invades Ukraine, which if the invasion was a success, would of put (the new expanded) Russia next to NATO countries.
Spot the obvious flaw in that logic.
I mean come on. Everyone figured out the NATO thing was just an excuse way back in 2022.
Freedom, truth and democracy provokes Putin, not NATO.
You are right, as long as NATO exists, or rather, as long as Europe is occupied by the US army, any solution to the issue of Russian security will be temporary, compromise and half-hearted.