The Ukraine, and many of the lower eastern European FSU countries have no business becoming NATO members, or ‘aspirants’ like the Ukraine. That organization shouldn’t even EXIST anymore. The Warsaw Pact is kaput, over long ago, and this expansion beyond its original charter will never stop util it is forced to stop. Let the EU defend itself and fund its own EDF. They won’t even pay into NATO at the the agree-upon 2% of GDP rate. Screw Europe.
Former Warsaw Pact countries joined NATO due to the tyrannical repression of their Soviet occupiers.
They are sovereign Nations and can do what they wish.