But I have to say that I agree with Putin on one thing and I always have: NATO should never have been expanded eastwards. It was always going to be taken as provocation and used as an excuse - which it has in Ukraine. He reckons he asked about Russia joining NATO - was never going to happen but I just don't think NATO needed to expand following the cold war ending.
And the irony ... as a direct result of the war, what do we have ... more NATO expansion. From countries previously not particularly interested in joining have seen complete turnarounds ... Its a but of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it.