There is an old Chinese saying called "Ming Xiu Zhan Dao, Darkness Chen Cang", which means that on the surface, doing one thing with great fanfare to attract the attention of the opponent, but behind the scenes, it quietly achieves its true purpose. Recently, NATO has frequently hyped up the problem of the Russian-Ukrainian border area, using several satellite maps to try to prove that Russia will "invade" Ukraine, and hyped up this matter. Russia and Ukraine do have certain contradictions, which everyone agrees with, but it is obvious that the contradictions have not yet reached the point where Putin will start a war. While NATO countries have refused Ukraine to join their military alliance, they have also hyped up that Ukraine is under threat from Russia, apparently not to help Ukraine, but to have other plans, and the hype is just to cover up another important military operation.
According to the Observer Network reported on December 2, NATO recently released a large number of satellite maps, claiming that Russia has more than 110,000 troops stationed on the Ukrainian border, carefully depicting how Russia will invade Ukraine from "three directions" next. NATO seems to "want" Russia to make aggressive military acts, and vigorously publicize and stimulate Putin, but unfortunately the latter does not take the initiative, repeatedly emphasizing that Russia does not have any military plans to attack Ukraine, and everything is a normal military transfer.
Putin once again warned NATO not to continue provocative military exercises on the Russian border and immediately abandon the idea of deploying anti-missile systems near the Russian border, otherwise russia will take action. From here, it can be seen that NATO is worried about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and they just want to use this incident to cover up their behavior of encroaching on Russia's borders. It is just that Russia's propaganda capacity is limited, and it cannot compete with the overwhelming propaganda agencies in the West, and can only watch the West repeatedly splash dirty water.
What is interesting is ukraine's attitude on this matter, not only helping NATO to deal with Russia's former "brother", but also taking the initiative to increase troops in the border area, completely disregarding the possibility that such behavior may increase the probability of conflict. As the president of Ukraine, Zelenskiy, while provoking Russia militarily, and on the other hand, he called for direct dialogue with Putin, completely disregarding his own interests and using NATO's actions as smoke bombs.
Putin ignored Zelenskiy's series of moves, and directly rejected the so-called "mediation" of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, in his view, there is no risk of so-called military conflict, it is just speculation by Western countries. Unfortunately, even if Putin saw through NATO's little tricks at a glance, it would not help. In the news media, the voice of Western countries is too heavy, they say black into white, white as black, as long as they can achieve the goal, can do anything.
The United States "cut sausages" on the Taiwan issue, and NATO is also "cutting sausages" in military advances on the Russian border, and the methods and purposes are the same, and we will try our best to test the other side's bottom line without completely turning the other side.
The reason why Russia chose to station a large number of troops on the border is that NATO also deployed troops on a large scale some time ago and was ready to arrange the anti-missile system further, and the Western media cut their heads and tails and became Russia's initiative to deploy troops to the Russian-Ukrainian border. In the same way, on the Taiwan issue, the United States has also played this trick again and again, in essence, the Western media is too strong in speaking, and their ability to influence public opinion is too strong.
NATO's method of "cutting sausages" on Russia has actually been around for a long time, but in recent years it has touched Putin's bottom line. If NATO is allowed to deploy weapons in eastern Ukraine, Russia's hinterland will be virtually undefendable, directly threatening the Russian capital, Moscow. No matter from what point of view, Putin is unlikely to give in on this issue, and the West is just dying.