Could the Russian invasion into Ukraine relate to the aggressive expansion of NATO?

Jacques and Jennifer talk about the tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border and the drumming up of war by western leaders, particularly by the US and via the systematic expansion of the NATO now virtually encircling Russia. There's more behind all of this than meets the eye... and looking at recent history does indeed help!  And some of the below alternative bits of information will offer a rather different view to that of the western and Australian media...(with the exception of the New Daily and the Guardian...)https://www.counterpunch.org/author/alfred-de-zayas/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/putin-narrative-ukraine-master-key-crisis-nato-expansionism-frozen-conflict?utm_term=6216d896452db0f1c927a290d24e1d96&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_emailhttps://www.investigaction.net/fr/lembargo-qui-tue-le-peuple-syrie-le-monde-vu-den-bas-41/https://www.fridayeveryday.com/author/seth-mallick/https://www.workers.org/2022/01/60942/file:///G:/3CR%20materials/The%20Crisis%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20not%20about%20Ukraine.%20It's%20about%20Germany,%20by%20Mike%20Whitney%20-%20The%20Unz%20Review.htm