俄罗斯明显的军事失败，为什么北约会害怕俄罗斯的扩张？

 鉴于俄罗斯明显的军事失败，为什么北约会害怕俄罗斯的扩张？

自1991年苏联解体以来，

北约东扩的动力不是对俄罗斯扩张的恐惧，

而是

以乔治-布什为代表的新保守主义者

和

以比尔-克林顿、奥巴马和拜登为代表的新自由主义者的权力感和狂妄。

比尔-克林顿很有远见，他预见到了美国的单极统治地位将结束的那一天，因此开始着手让世界进入一个以统治为基础的世界，将全球化进程扩大到中国，并建立了接受中国为成员的世贸组织。

但是，新教徒对伊斯兰教的执着和他们对穆斯林的需要，使美国花了30年时间进行反恐战争，对穆斯林和穆斯林国家进行征服、制裁、恐怖、杀戮和掠夺，从阿富汗开始，然后是伊拉克、利比亚、叙利亚、伊朗等。

正是在它的背对着它的时候，中国才成长为一个世界强国。

惊慌失措的美国突然意识到，它必须立即采取一些措施来遏制中国。

奥巴马试图以TPP为支点转向亚洲，但这一想法被希拉里-克林顿破坏了，然后被特朗普取消并彻底摧毁。

与此同时，尽管俄罗斯继续反对，美国自己的老牌冷战分子和约翰-迈尔斯海默教授等学者也提出批评，但东欧的北约化却被更加疯狂和坚决地推行。

突然间，比尔-克林顿关于基于统治的多极世界的良性观点变成了关于遏制中国的疯狂观点，而美国已经遗忘了大约30年，同时忙于制裁、入侵破坏穆斯林的土地，并在新教徒推动的反恐战争中杀害穆斯林。

我希望上述内容能纠正你对整个事件中谁害怕谁的问题的叙述。

Given the manifest military failure of Russia, why does NATO fear Russian expansion?

What animated the eastward expansion of NATO since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 is not the fear of Russian expansion but rather the feeling of power and hubris of both the NeoCons represented by George Bush and the NeoLiberal as represented by Bill Clinton,Obama and Biden.

Bill Clinton was prescient and enlightened enough to anticipate the day that the US unipolar dominance would come to an end and thus set about getting the world into a ruled based world by expanding the globalisation process to include China and the creation of WTO that accepted China as a member

But the NeoCons fixation on Islam and their need to go against the Muslims saw America spent 30 years on War on Terror, the euphemism for conquests, sanctions, terror , killing and pillage of Muslims and Muslim countries beginning with Afghanistan then followed Iraq,Libya ,Syria Iran,etc

It was whike its back was turned that China grew into a world power.

A panicked America suddenly realised that it must do something to contain China pronto. Obama tried to pivot to Asia with TPP that was sabotaged by Hillary Clinton as an idea and then was done away with and completely destroyed by Trump.

In the meanwhile the NATOISATION of Eastern Europe was pursued even more frantically and resolutely in spite of continuing objections by Russia and criticism by USs own old time Cold Warriors and academics like Professor John Meirsheimer.

Suddenly Bill Clinton’s benign view of a ruled based multipolar world had turned into a frantic view about containing the China the US has forgotten for about 30 years while busy sanctioning, invading destroying Muslim lands and killing Muslims under the War on Terror promoted by the NeoCons

I hope the above corrects the narrative of your question about who fears who in the whole shebang.