[svarnypetr]

I did not make a reconstruction of the timeline, but weren't the NATO amounts growing only after the Russian troops started growing and doing their larger and larger exercises that seemed worrying (and escalated now into the invasion)?

[speeder]

NATO started growing when Russia was still all kinds of fucked up, with the first phase being in 1997 if I remember correctly.

[CRConrad]

"Growing" in number of members generally, perhaps. Like, way up in the Baltics and so on.

But:

>>> the amount of NATO weaponry in or near Ukraine.

This was specifically about this conflict.