Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to drop Ukraine's aspirations to join the NATO military alliance as he held hours of talks with US envoys in Berlin to end the war with Russia, with negotiations set to continue tomorrow.
Anyway, Ukraine joining NATO would benefit NATO at least as much as it would Ukraine. Ukraine would effectively become the armoury of NATO, at the cutting edge of weapons and tactics development. (Similarly, if Russia were to win, it would find captured Ukrainian technologies very useful in Moldova/the Baltic States/Finland, and NATO would find having allowed this to happen to be a very false economy.) Ukraine is anything but dead weight, and we need to recognise this.
It’s a trap.
Anyway, Ukraine joining NATO would benefit NATO at least as much as it would Ukraine. Ukraine would effectively become the armoury of NATO, at the cutting edge of weapons and tactics development. (Similarly, if Russia were to win, it would find captured Ukrainian technologies very useful in Moldova/the Baltic States/Finland, and NATO would find having allowed this to happen to be a very false economy.) Ukraine is anything but dead weight, and we need to recognise this.