Now Russian supporters & isolationists are going to go crazy with the official announcement that UKR will definitely become a NATO member.
Putin's actions in Ukraine have produced the opposite of his stated pretexts for invasions -- to prevent the expansion of NATO.
Finland and Sweden have now joined NATO, and Finland adds 830 miles to Russia's border with NATO, a border which already included:
< sarcasm > That makes Vlad the Invader among the greatest strategic geniuses of all time! </sarcasm>
However, all of that will be counted as just the "cost of victory" in the Russian mindset, if, if, if, Donald Trump is elected and then does what our Democrats are claiming he intends to do --
I don't think those claims by our Democrats are at all true, but it does seem that many posters on Free Republic would be quite happy to see it happen as claimed.