Ukraine in NATO Would Be a Disaster

>In practical terms, Ukraine would probably emerge very quickly as the leader of a hard-line group of anti-Russian nations, calling always for a more confrontational policy and more hawkish positions and statements about Russia.

It seems rather in the natural order of things that an invaded country would be antipathetic to their invaders, yes, and might hold those objections post-war. Perhaps that might explain similar sentiments from the long-memory Finns.

I do hope and believe, perhaps without merit, that should European political gravity and intellectual influence shift eastward, that the European story may benefit in surprising ways. The author seems to disagree.

> it would be impossible to know whether one or other member of the Ukrainian delegation was actually working for the Russians.

That. That's the big argument. And it's a terrible argument.

End the suffering. End the war. Putin is a thug and Zelensky is a zealot.

Painful as a progressive american to see our country become a belligerent proponent AGAIN for useless conflict, death and war mongering.