Five reasons not to admit Ukraine into NATO – also for the benefit of Kiev. NATO should not admit Ukraine – for several reasons.
Moscow should recognize that further territorial conquests will be expensive. Hungary's recent campaign to delay Sweden's accession to NATO for several years reminds us of how this process really works in practice: Sweden had no "right" to join unless all other members agreed. The West erred last spring when they made optimistic predictions about the impending Russian counteroffensive. I wish it were different, but we should be base our political decisions on the world, not on how it would like it to be.