“Russia had no plans to invade Ukraine.”

Invades Ukraine.

“Russia has no plans to attack Europe.”

These assholes think lying is a form of breathing.

He also accused NATO of attempting to “militarily encircle all of Eurasia”

Like, two continents?

I mean, the only realistic way that you could do that would be via control of the seas. I think that NATO members have, in sum, represented the majority of world naval power ever since NATO was founded. So, insofar as it’s actually possible to have military superiority surrounding two continents, looking at aggregate military capability, that’s probably been the case as long as NATO has been around.

That being said, the Article 6 of the NATO treaty doesn’t — in approximate summary — oblige members to act unless they’ve been attacked in North America, the North Atlantic, Europe, Turkey, or the Mediterranean, so NATO as an institution doesn’t really legally have much direct import on most of the area surrounding Eurasia. What happens in the Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean isn’t a matter for NATO. And from Russia’s standpoint, where it has practical import is going to be Russia’s western border.