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Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]
Putin wants Ukraine before Ukraine can even remotely become a member of NATO.
Well....if that's his fear he is going about it in a totally wrong way...
According to polls conducted between 2005 and 2013, Ukrainian public support of NATO membership remained low.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
There were no problems....NATO didn't want Ukraine and Ukrainians didn't want NATO....but then:
....However, since Russian military intervention in Ukraine and Crimea, public support for Ukrainian membership in NATO has risen greatly. Since June 2014, polls showed that about 50% of those asked supported Ukrainian NATO membership. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, ....I can only guess but the numbers might be even higher now thanks to some not-so-smart moves by Putin....maybe something in the 90s% by now....
Ukraine PM calls for NATO's help against Russia
As Russian troops mass along border, Denys Shmyhal urges NATO to send ships and step up surveillance flights.politico.eu/article/ukraine-shmyhal-nato-russia/
Putin is driving Ukraine into the arms of NATO....