Now put your thinking cap on and try to deduce why nearly all of Russia’s neighbors want to be in NATO. Could it be because Russia has a long history of trying to genocidally erase them?
This may be an armchair parlor game for you and me but its real life for Russia’s neighbors. It’s their children being mass murdered, again, by the Moscow Kremlin. Think about that before you breezily disenfranchise a nation of 40 million people.
Open your eyes, and observe what has happened to your beloved Ukraine. It is a horrible place to live now. Millions have fled. Men have been killed by huge numbers. Ukrainian women are in Florida selling their bodies.
So you still think Ukraine made the right decision to demand NATO membership?
Belorussia is also Russia’s neighbor. I have not heard of Russia invading Belorussia.