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… they’re aimed now against Russia, instead of against the U.S.). All of the pretext for the Cold War was gone; and therefore to call this new war against the lone and non-communist rump Russian government a ‘new cold war’ (at a time when Russia’s former Soviet partners have been switched to enemies, and the Warsaw Pact of allies has been switched to the NATO pact of enemies) is preposterous; it is nothing of the sort. It is U.S. aggression. And a pretext was thus needed in order to be able to call Putin’s Russia …

… membership has been pushed by the US.
Reversing the Scenario to See How the US Would Interpret Russia’s Actions
Let us say that after the Cold War Ended in 1989, Russia had a common defense pact against the US and added all of the countries mentioned to this pact. Would this not be viewed as a hostile action by the US?
Partnership for Peace
The enlargement of NATO is even worse than presented above. This is because there is a program similar to NATO which is sort of a “NATO Jr.” called Partnership in Peace. See the following quotation

… advise and assist Saudi-led troops to retake territory from AQAP. In January 2017, a U.S. Special Operations Forces raid in central Yemen killed one U.S. service member, several suspected AQAP-affiliated fighters, and an unknown number of Yemeni civilians. Since 2002, the United States has carried out nearly four hundred strikes in Yemen. While Houthi rebels do not pose a direct threat to the United States, their attacks on Saudi Arabian infrastructure and territory threaten an important U.S. partner. – CFR
Comparing the Russian Record of Treating Civilian Casualties Versus the US and NATO in Syria
NATO