I will say if your goal is to avoid a war with Russia "at all costs" then the US leaving NATO and abandoning Europe would meet that objective, which I know you don't agree with. The broader point being: Putin has not challenged NATO, so I don't agree that inviting Ukraine into NATO would increase the chance of war, far from it. On the flip side, inviting Ukraine without resolving its territorial dispute with Russia would be a mistake. But that does not take NATO membership off the table, it simply returns us to the preconditions Biden said out loud.
We wind up where we started: Trump and his sycophants are idiots.
I will say if your goal is to avoid a war with Russia "at all costs" then the US leaving NATO and abandoning Europe would meet that objective, which I know you don't agree with. The broader point being: Putin has not challenged NATO, so I don't agree that inviting Ukraine into NATO would increase the chance of war, far from it. On the flip side, inviting Ukraine without resolving its territorial dispute with Russia would be a mistake. But that does not take NATO membership off the table, it simply returns us to the preconditions Biden said out loud.
We wind up where we started: Trump and his sycophants are idiots.