I don't really buy into this argument because NATO has done no such integration and has actually pretty much made a policy of leaving Ukraine out to dry, even w

I don't really buy into this argument because NATO has done no such integration and has actually pretty much made a policy of leaving Ukraine out to dry, even with its extremely pro-West government right now (there is no way Putin doesn't know this as well): yet here we are, with an invasion into Ukraine by Russia.