1 - Easy to say when your country isn’t the one who is having its main adversary putting weapons on your border.
2-Actually it was Russia who repeatedly warned NATO to stop pumping weapons into NATOs eastern flank and stop pushing for Ukraine/NATO membership, which we all know would never happen anyway straight from Zelensky’s mouth:
Contentious security guarantees Moscow is seeking include a ban on Ukraine from entering Nato
www.theguardian.com
NATO basically told Russia to fuck off, and now as a result you have Ukrainians with no heat or power.
Thanks NATO.
BTW I don’t believe Putins request was unreasonable. If Russia or China were pumping in weapons into Canada or Mexico, this country would lose its shit and we would immediately respond. But Russia is just supposed to sit there with its thumb up its ass while adversaries are pumping weapons into its neighboring country and launching coups to put puppets in power.