Comment: This war started not in 2014 but in 1991 – (Beginning of color revolutions in former Warsaw Pact member states), and in 1999, when NATO started its eastward expansion (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO), breaking its own promise given to Gorbachev in 1990). Then, in 2004, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined NATO. In 2009, Albania and Croatia joined NATO. In 2014, US financed and supported riots (Kiev’s Maidan) and political coup in Ukraine, and officially stated the goal of including Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. In 2014-2015 – Planning and deployment of US bases and military equipment in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Turkey and Romania. Provocative NATO war games, involving US military units and equipment, on the borders of Russia. Aggressive anti-Russia propaganda in some NATO countries. In 2022, the Russian Special Military Operation started and NATO countries began their support of Ukraine in its war against Russia. The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were sabotaged by a series of powerful underwater explosions on September 26, 2022. In 2024, Finland and Sweden joined NATO. — (see this article for more details).