"...NATO gave Russia repeated solemn assurances that it would not expand eastwards, reneging with each accessing country. Ukraine is the corrupt child of the US’s $7 billion expenditure fomenting the so-called “colour revolution”. For Russia, a NATO allied Ukraine on its doorstep it the last straw; a serious, genuine threat to Russia’s own security, totally ignored in the West’s aggressive posturing. Ukraine has no right to demand NATO membership, only mischief is making NATO promote this. The obvious answer is to agree to Ukraine’s permanent neutrality, much as the now thriving democracies of Finland and Austria had to agree with Russia after WW2. Ukraine pursuing the USA’s belligerent, expansionist agenda is that of a failing power manipulating a failing state, to disastrously fail its own citizens and future."


-Accurately assessed and succinctly put: hope it gets published.