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The proposal of NATO membership for Ukraine is yet another endorsement of hope over experience. If the United States or any other NATO country considered Ukraine a vital interest, they would have committed troops to Ukraine at some point over the last 10 years of war. Sitting out the war for a decade and then signing a promise to fight in the hypothetical future will not impress Putin, but it may well cause him to doubt the credibility of our other Article 5 commitments, which would be called into question by our risible extension of Article 5 to a country we have refused to fight for over the past decade. The only way to give this recommendation any credibility is to have at least some NATO countries commit troops now, in advance of a peace deal, and convert the "few sneakers" into boots on the ground. If this does not happen, then Ukrainians will have to accept the fact that EU membership is the most they can realistically expect in any peace deal.

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Western world democracies are in desperate need of new democratic renaissance of broad enlightenment and education to shake off the damaging effects of the ravaged neo liberal version of capitalism, over the past four decades.

If Western Democracies fail to broadly kick-off and accomplish sustainable democratic changes the NATO itself will fail in wrong hands or obsolete, unable to prevent dismantling of western democracies constantly under increased attacks by obscene billionaire plutocrats & kleptocrats with the help of extreme political populists, with support from RU-CN autocrats and Western wannabe dictators & fascists.

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