Russian invasion of Ukraine

It's not blaming nato for anything.

Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.

This is exactly what happened, it's not just Putin, it's the whole Russian bullshit of seeing themselves as victims. They see themselves as a former superpower that was cheated out of their colonies and what they see as rightfully theirs. But they are just a bunch of losers that never amounted to much and have nothing to offer for the future of the planet. If they didn't have nukes they would have been wiped of the face of the earth a long time ago.

That's why this whole unification of the russian public behind Putin with propaganda works, they can still refer to a great Russia without people breaking out laughing. No current German politician could rally people behind themselves by striving to rebuild the 3rd Reich. Russia is still poisoned by the Soviet past, just because they were allowed to be consumers of western goods for a few decades does not turn them into a modern society.