[cba123]

I don’t actually think Ukraine can join NATO.

I doubt Russia ,would ever agree to that.

Then again I am nowhere near Ukraine and don’t have any experience there, but I don’t think that will work.

At all.

[ansel12]

Russia doesn’t decide NATO membership, NATO is a defensive military alliance formed to protect itself from Russia.

[Thilly Thailor]

All I can say is nobody will like it. I think if we view the war objectively Russia already lost in that neutral Sweden and Finland joined NATO, a thing I never imagined would happen. The Russians succeeded in scaring the crap out of everybody so NATO wound up flanking them from the northwest. I see no way Russia can hope to win more than it already has. The price they'll pay for that land bridge to Crimea is now being flanked by NATO from the southwest.

Northeast and southwest. Man, Putin screwed up.

If Russia doesn't make peace soon they'll fine that NATO member Turkiye has taken control of the entire South Caucus out to the Caspian Sea, where they'll begin anti-Russian agitation with all the Turkic speaking peoples of Central Asia. In short, NATO will flank them from the South.

And if that happens then be sure that China will pile on, taking at least Mongolia and maybe even Vladivostok

And all this while proving to the world that the Russian military isn't the world class machine it had been assumed to be.

Talk about epic screw-ups. Putin stepped in it big time. If Putin doesn't get it then somebody in the Kremlin will have to cut losses quick, lest Russia face huge territorial losses from the Caucus to the Pacific.

IMHO, of course.

[SACK UP]

As long as Ukraine is at war NATO is not an option.