> making Ukraine part of NATO is just too close. Ukraine (after abandoning efforts after the MAP rejection -- done at Russia's insistence -- in 2008) only star

> making Ukraine part of NATO is just too close. Ukraine (after abandoning efforts after the MAP rejection -- done at Russia's insistence -- in 2008) only started looking at NATO membership again after Russia invaded, so it is ludicrously disconnected from reality (but exactly representative of Russian propaganda!) to try to use that to justify the invasion.