While speculating is a worthwhile past-time, it's really hard to know how the war will end, when it will end, and what will the end scenario be like in both Ukraine and Russia.
Many presume that Putin will not survive a loss in the war, and if he goes Russia might take a completely different path. One potential end scenario is that Russia collapses economically, and what would happen after that, no one knows. The whole federation might start breaking apart.
If Trump becomes president, he might end US support for Ukraine and quite possibly cause the collapse of NATO, at which point Europe would need a new defense partnership anyway, with new rules.
Those are just a couple of possibilities that would put a completely new spin on the question of whether or not Ukraine should or could join NATO.
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