[FRIAM] Ukraine and NATO

[glen]

Why Ukraine is still not a NATO member: who is to blame and what to do?
https://uacrisis.org/en/why-ukraine-is-still-not-in-nato

Does anyone here have any better understanding of why Ukraine membership is so "toxic"? Is this simply a disagreement between hawks and doves wrt Putin's dream of a new USSR? I seem to remember back when Crimea was first occupied by Russia that nearly half the people really did identify more as Russians than Ukrainians. Ignoring that polls are fraught, is there a sense that a significant bloc Ukrainians, themselves, might disapprove of joining NATO?

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