Questioning
the significance of security through NATO membership has become a tactic of
Russia appeasers. The purported logic for this argumentation is twofold: nothing has disturbed Vladimir Putin more
than NATO expansion; and nothing would exacerbate the current Ukraine-Russia
crisis more than NATO membership for Ukraine.
In any event, the appeasers suggest,
NATO membership is hardly an absolute security guaranty since each NATO
member country acts at its own discretion.
Thus Ukraine should relinquish its NATO membership aspirations. So the
argument goes.
