Max Boot ๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ @MaxBoot
I mean, it was no secret before the invasion that NATO wasn't about to invite Ukraine in. Whether Zelensky is interested in membership or not doesn't change NATO's lack of interest in including Ukraine. Putin knew that. He's not stupid. — PolitiTweet.org
ian bremmer @ianbremmer
@MaxBoot probably would not have mattered. those are different things.