The War in Ukraine in Light of the Expansion of NATO

This chapter will analyse the consequences of the Russian invasion in Ukraine in February 2022. To date, many military analyses of this war have been published. A large majority of contemporary authors have focused on military aspects, the role of arms systems and military manoeuvres. Their conclusions can be neither neglected nor ignored. They will be cited and appropriately appreciated. However, they do not represent the main subject of this chapter, which is why the main attention of this chapter will be paid to the debates about the correlation between this war and the process of NATO expansion.