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A simple search supports my argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations... Also go back and listen to old speeches and interviews by Putin and Lavrov. They have been crystal clear about that fact, saying it openly that they will even invade if NATO tries to get too close. I empathise with the Ukrainian people who are the ones that have to suffer from these power games, but I place a lot of…
Timeline from the article you linked does not support your argument: During the 2010 presidential election campaign, Party of Regions leader and candidate Viktor Yanukovych stated that the current level of Ukraine's cooperation with NATO was sufficient and that the question of the country's accession to the alliance was therefore not urgent. On 14 February 2010, Yanukovych said that Ukraine's relations with NATO were…
On 9 February 2021, the prime minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, stated that he hoped that Ukraine would be able to receive an action plan for NATO membership at the same time as Georgia
On 7 April 2021, after the start of the build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border
Can't you see that you are the victim of the US military industrial complex ?