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If Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, NATO would be laughing off Trump's demand to increase military spending just like they did the first time. Hell, considering how much more power Trump is weilding this time around, that could have directly lead to the US leaving NATO as he has often threatened to do.
However, Putin's invasion completely reinvigorated the desire of other countries to be in NATO, turning the demand to increase spending from a silly political whim to a credible ultimatum. No, it isn't solely Putin's fault, but the SMO played directly into the American empire's hands.
If Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, it would've been a launching ground for an invasion into Russia or forced submission. Trump isn't wielding any more power than Biden who also demanded increased military spending.
NATO was always an imperialist organization made up of colonizer states eager to form a bloc against the spread of "gommunist USSR" which no longer exists. So now it is an entity that functions to serve the imperialists of the western hegemony. This was shown when Ukraine was couped by far-right nationalists with assistance from western intelligence to make a entity right on the edge of Russia's border when it began distancing itself from the West. I'd argue Ukraine becoming a Nazi state was more of the fault here than anything Putin ever did.
Which, weirdly, Ukraine had a lot of support from nato states before in their little nazi adventure?? I wonder what that means.
With what army? Nobody wanted fund their militaries prior to the SMO, the SMO is what created what is currently the largest threat to Russia's security.
NATO began military exercises in Ukraine at the end of 2013. In the years leading up to the SMO, NATO flew B-52 nuclear bombers up to border of Russian airspace, they ran a simulated invasion of Kaliningrad with a full force, and Putin explicitly stated that the reason the SMO launched was because there was NATO activity on the border that was indistinguishable from preparations of nuclear capabilities.
Since the SMO, none of these things have been possible. This is the reason for the SMO. It was not mindless adventurism. It was calculated and reluctant.