How Russia made NATO a party to the Ukraine conflict

Ben Nimmo, STRATCOM
One of Russia’s greatest successes in its information war over Ukraine has been its ability to portray NATO as a party to the conflict. ... In the Russian narrative as it now stands, one of the key triggers of the Kremlin’s decision to annex Crimea was the danger that Ukraine was about to join NATO - the latest in a series of aggressive and provocative moves by the alliance to advance closer and closer to Russia.