Now that Ukraine has voted to drop its non-aligned status, we are hearing an official story from Russia that “NATO has pushed Ukraine to do this.” Endlessly repeated, it is exactly opposite to the truth. Moscow’s policies over the last twelve months have changed popular opinion in Ukraine. From 1991 until 2013 every poll indicated that a plurality of Ukrainians was opposed to joining NATO. Lack of public support was the only qualification for joining NATO that Ukraine was lacking. Russia’s aggression has changed that, but NATO still does not want Ukraine to apply. …read more
Source: Atlantic Community
