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Originally Posted by Table 5
I know we're all on Team Ukraine at the moment, but in the big picture this is still not a country that the EU/NATO should need or want in their ranks. It has been, and remains, a highly corrupt and broken nation full of the same type of a-holes like in Russia (perhaps even worse?) and where any legitimate capital gets quickly syphoned off into a murky black hole. It would be nothing but a costly, and potentially very dangerous headache. I think we all need to keep in mind that just because Russia is bad, it doesn't mean that Ukraine is necessarily "good".
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I think EU membership is a viable longer-term option (assuming they can recover from whatever puppet regime that Russia will likely install if they take control), but there's no way NATO should be entering into a mutual defense agreement with a country that has had two revolutions in the last 20 years and who has been battling an insurgency for the last 8 years. Way too much chance of escalation.