"it won't represent the kind of relief valve from European dependence on Russia that a free and prosperous united Ukraine might" The EU and NATO are voluntaril

"it won't represent the kind of relief valve from European dependence on Russia that a free and prosperous united Ukraine might" The EU and NATO are voluntarily breaking away from dependence on Russia on many fronts as we speak. Russia's invasion of Ukraine galvanized this process. Peace would have been far less devastating to all the countries involved.