Completely idiotic and reckless. Aside from the fact that Ukraine is massively corrupt and not a democracy, this also gives Russia absolutely no incentive other than to hold out for their maximal demands......ie annexing the entire Donbas and Black Sea Coast including Odessa. They’ll leave Ukraine as a broken impoverished, landlocked rump of of country hundreds of miles to the West of its current officially recognized borders.
And for what? What is the point of us insisting on taking Ukraine in knowing it is a red flag for Russia and guaranteed to provoke exactly the conflict going on there today?
If Russia’s concern is really NATO membership, then let it offer to withdraw from Ukraine in return for a treaty of Ukrainian neutrality. But that is never going to happen because this war is about Russian expansion, not that of NATO.
You don’t seem to understand that many Ukrainians would rather live in a “broken impoverished country” or die on their feet than live as slaves, again, in the filth of the Russian World. They’ve lived their history. You haven’t, obviously. Think about that. FRegards.