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Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en... by aidenn0 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:48PM (#32740533)
It's a bit more complicated than that because Ukraine looked into joining NATO in the early 00s, reversed course and was (at least officially) neutral until 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas. December 2014 they restarted plans to join NATO.

Realistically, Ukraine was left with the choice of slowly losing territory to Russia, or joining NATO.

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Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en... by danbruc on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:11PM (#32740852)
The events in and around 2014 are really important. Did Ukraine revive its NATO membership ambitions because of Russian actions or did Russia act in response to new NATO membership ambitions?

When I first researched this after the invasion started, I arrived at Russia reacting but I am open to being proven wrong.

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