Assuming that that factual basis were true… who gets to decide whether Ukraine joins NATO, in your opinion? Ukrainian voters or someone else? If someone else, w

Assuming that that factual basis were true… who gets to decide whether Ukraine joins NATO, in your opinion? Ukrainian voters or someone else? If someone else, why? Go, on, try to put it in words. Make a coherent theory of when one country can decide what another country may and may not do. The principle we have now is one that was agreed on in 1648, in the peace treaty that ended the thirty years' war: Countries are sovereign, and each country accepts that it doesn't have any sort of super-right over other countries. (Exceptions are set out in special treaties, so e.g. Germany needed other countries' permissions to reunify, because the WW2 peace treaty granted those countries certain rights.)