One could say marching your army into another nation and occupying almost 20% of it predictably results in the remains of the invaded nation arming itself better. In fact, the last two Russian land grabs have resulted in Russia facing a far larger and better armed border region to its west---with even MORE Russian neighbors requesting membership in NATO. Only the most simple minded believe that that the Russians are not their own worst enemies when it comes to causing NATO to slowly increase in size and capability.

Its funny that so many understand that this war would not have occurred with Trump as the US president. The simple reason is Trump was a strong leader and would have not have stood for any invasion. Putin KNEW Trump would not allow a Russian take over of Ukraine---which is why there would not have never been an invasion to begin with if Trump were still president. That said, Trump--working from a position of strength and respect---would have worked out a deal with Putin before it got so far out of hand---but doing that required a leader that Putin respected. That aint Biden.

As for NATO's strength----Trump was the one that told NATO nations that relying on Russian gas made them vulnerable. Trump was the one who demanded that the NATO nations meet their 2% GNP minimum requirements for self defense investment. Its pure Democrat propaganda to claim that Trump undermined NATO. He sought to make NATO stronger and he sought to reduce NATO's cost/reliance on the US by demanding that NATO nations at least provide the very MINIMUM agreed upon amount toward their own defense---which would make NATO even stronger militarily. How anyone could define warning fellow NATO nations of danger and requiring NATO nations to increase defense spending as "weakening NATO" is beyond me. The leaders "weakening NATO" were the ones becoming reliant on Russian gas and the leaders who were trying to get away with spending less than the NATO minimum on defense.