Of course, Russia is already fighting NATO... NATO reneged on its promise to not expand NATO eastward. We have known that Russia wants a buffer between it and the West but that buffer was gone when Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were brought into NATO. NATO countries mucked around in Ukraine's elections and replaced the Russia friendly puppet government with a Western friendly puppet government and then floated the idea of NATO membership.
NATO countries have been taking advantage of Ukrainian corruption to launder money there, we are operating secret BioLabs there just as we did in China and that didn't go well, and our defense contractors who pull strings on our leaders are getting rich selling arms and using Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia.
Putin is not a good guy, and we like to blame him for starting the war in Ukraine, but Putin has been under attack by the West for some time now. The Western bankers want him out because he won't allow Western Central Banks in Russia. Putin saw what happened to Trump, who stood up against the Globalist elites and sees himself as standing up against them as well. He doesn't want to play by their rules or have anything to do with their disgusting Woke, Progressive, New World Order. Can you blame him?