Ukraine should not be a part of NATO.
Pursuing that amounts to pursuing war with Russia.
Pursuing appeasement against the local small-time bully over Sudetenland ended up costing tens of millions of lives across the globe.
If all of this unleashes into a war, it should be called Joes War.
“Ukraine should not be a part of NATO. Pursuing that amounts to pursuing war with Russia.”
Screw Russia. Whether or no Ukraine joins NATO is up to Ukraine and NATO, not Moscow.
Perhaps you missed it but Russia is also demanding that NATO expel from membership all of the former Soviet slave states as a precondition for peace. Which utterly underlines the need for NATO in the first place!
In case you missed it here are Russia’s eight demands to NATO from their December 10, 2021 letter:
Article 1: the parties should not strengthen their security at the expense of Russia’s security;
Article 2: the parties will use multilateral consultations and the NATO-Russia Council to address points of conflict;
Article 3: the parties reaffirm that they do not consider each other as adversaries and maintain a dialogue;
Article 4: the parties shall not deploy military forces and weaponry on the territory of any of the other states in Europe in addition to any forces that were deployed as of May 27, 1997;
Article 5: the parties shall not deploy land-based intermediate- and short-range missiles adjacent to the other parties;
Article 6: all member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization commit themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of NATO, including the accession of Ukraine as well as other States;
Article 7: the parties that are member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shall not conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine as well as other States in the Eastern Europe, in the South Caucasus and in Central Asia; and
Article 8: the agreement shall not be interpreted as affecting the primary responsibility of the Security Council of the United Nations for maintaining international peace and security.