[Future Snake Eater]

So Russia does not and should not have any vital national interest in preventing Ukraine from joining NATO b/c the Warsaw Pact wasn’t voluntary?

[1rudeboy]

What about Ukraine’s national interest in trying to prevent itself from being invaded by Russia? For the third time?

[FreeReign]

So Russia does not and should not have any vital national interest in preventing Ukraine from joining NATO b/c the Warsaw Pact wasn’t voluntary?

Ukraine and NATO have every right to mutually associate with each other to build a defensive alliance.

[edpc]

They can be interested all they want, just like they whined about the Baltics joining. Nothing happened because of it. Russia is the one with a history of expansionism by force. To call NATO a threat is laughable.