(July 12, 2023 at 5:58 pm)Angrboda Wrote: If I were NATO then I'd put obstacles in the way of Ukraine joining. A NATO country on the border of Russia is a flashpoint and Putin can't keep it in his pants.
Finland joining NATO just doubled the frontier of flashpoint countries, if being in NATO really makes them flashpoints. It seems to me that joining NATO is actually how you take flashpoint countries off the table in front of Russia.