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I saw my neighbor install a pullup bar, so I told him I intend to firmly defend my interests in his living room from the aggressive policies of people living next to me.
Preparing defensive measures as a direct result of Putin open calls to re-create USSR is now agressive? Peskov please stop drinking on the job...
If only Putin did want to recreate the USSR. Sadly there is nothing socialist about the current Russian regime.
Where has he said this btw?
I thought it was mandatory..
The most prolific invader in the world - NATO - putting weapons on the border with Russia, conducting economic warfare against Russia, and conducting terror attacks on Russian civilians is, in fact, aggressive.
EDIT: Also, the assumption that Putin wants to recreate the USSR is silly, as is the assumption that that would be a bad thing if it was true.
Just to counter your arguments a bit:
NATO does not forcefully enter any country
NATO has invaded, among other countries, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Vietnam, Korea.
countries have to apply to become a member
Ah, you meant 'nobody is forced to join NATO', as opposed to it actually forcefully entering countries the way it did with the ones that I mentioned (among others)? Do you think that voluntarily joining the world's most prolific aggressor that is, among other things, conducting at least one obvious genocide is somehow good? Not sure how that is relevant otherwise.
There were already many weapons on several of Russia's borders before NATO was there.
Are you talking about the borders with the Baltic states and Norway, which are in a considerably different place than the border with Ukraine?
Do note that Ukraine has a large border close to Russia's most populated areas.
NATO has only reinforced this (as part of the agreement signed with the country in question).
Which doesn't make any of this better.
Economic warfare" (aka. economic sanctions) NATO has nothing to do with
NATO - i.e. the US and its subordinate states in Europe and elsewhere - is quite literally the initiator of the blockade against Russia (and other states/countries).
Terror attacks on civilian targets? Please provide sources.
Some of the recent ones include the dropping of bridges onto civilian trains and drone striking civilians. Also, not directly related, but I'm going to remind you of the fact that NATO has also been committing war crimes like perfidiously using civilians to conduct military activities like with the 'Spider's web'.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-blames-us-ukrainian-strikes-crimea-rcna158471
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-crimea-bridge.html
Agressive policies like attacking a sovereign nation you had a treaty with to never invade, but then invaded anyways? That kind of agressive?