The entire anti-Russian strategy was already outlined by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was known for his realist foreign policy, considered by some to be the Democratic Party's answer to the realism of Henry Kissinger of the Republican Party.
This video is a must watch for those who keep insisting despite evidence to the contrary that NATO expansion has nothing to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A Geostrategy for Eurasia
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a man who needs no introduction. The debate was intense about how to expand NATO. 1994 was the year of NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders. As you can see in the image, you will see that Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia will be the stage for NATO's expansion towards the east and the Black Sea will become a NATO lake. As it happened recently, Finland and Sweden will also be the stage for NATO's expansion, which ended up happening, Russia will be surrounded in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, NATO's expansion will go from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea.Not only that, after the implosion of the USSR, after the implosion of Yugoslavia, Russia was still a very large state and could be a threat to the US, so Russia also needed to be divided, and that is why the image includes three parts of a divided Russia, a part of Russia in the western part with more ties to Europe and consequently to NATO, a republic in Siberia and another in the Far East, all three republics aligned with the US, offering ties with the Americans to contain China in the future, which explains a large part of Eurasia as a zone of Chinese influence, thus representing a China that should be contained in the future.
All this happened under the diplomatic shoulders of an American: Victoria Nuland. Nuland was a very dedicated disciple of Brzezinski, having incorporated her mentor's ideas into the center of US policy decisions, from 2003 until her retirement in 2024.