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What opponents of Ukraine joining NATO fail to understand
Now that the NATO Summit in Washington is history and we’re back in mundane geopolitical reality, it is worth asking yet again just why Ukraine should or should not want to join the alliance. Critics of Ukraine’s NATO aspirations argue that neither …