I presume the Mutual defence clause of the European Union played a role as well.
The NATO (and denazification) "arguments" are just bits of rhetorical flim-flam to soften and confuse the opposition, basically.
If someone came and slapped you in the face but:
a) he is 90 kilos full of muscle
b) he is a lanky 55 kilos
would your reaction be the same ?
it is not a perfect analogy of course, but I want to point out the flaw in your reasoning.
Are you here for hacker news, or for spreading propaganda because you're on a payroll ?
Why are most of his comments about russia (if that's the true even): perhaps he is interested in the subject and has a nice attitude of only speaking about something he is knowledgeable in. Or maybe the subject of russia is something he find very emotional and feels an urge to speak about it.
Let me mimic your rhetoric:
Why are all your comments about russia, always pro-russian?
Are you spreading propaganda because you're on a payroll?
That said, they (mopsi) do seem to like to say some rather weird, and also intellectually dishonest things -- such their assertion that it was primarily the Russians, not the Germans (with the help of local collaborators) who arranged for the extermination of Baltic Jewry in the summer of 1941:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141260
Despite all evidence to the contrary.