Ok man, this has been a collosal waste of time and I'd appreciate if you would just drop it now.

From the very first comment you have constantly misunderstood my position and have brought up incrediably weird points like

So why did the U.S did not go with a plan to integrate Russia in the 90s also or reject any thought of Russia memebership?

While being incredibly disingenuous, (there was no plan, Russia offhandly asked in the 90s, US said no. US asks Russia later in the 90s, Russia said no.) it also had nothing to do with the conversation at hand.

To prove my point, here is the very first thing I said to you when you decided to engage in an already ongoing discussion

I've read the link and while I agree with it's theory that it was seen as a provocation by Russia, it doesn't address the reasons why Eastern/Baltic European nations wanted to join NATO.

From the very first sentence I've been trying to be patient with you because you burst into a conversation with no intention on actually joining the ongoing discussion. You constantly tried to change the subject, which I engaged and tried to return to the original discussion but you kept deciding to go off on wild tangents and endlessly bring up a NYTimes op-ed from almost 20 years ago instead of discussing current events.

Everyone gets it, Russia doesn't like NATO expansion.

Well, a lot of Russia's neighbors don't like Russia. So they joined NATO. So either keep crying over it, playing a victim. Or join the discussion for why these countries joined NATO

I tried to end the discussion but you are borderline harassing me now with constant crap that I told you I had no desire to continue with.