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[Emrys]

62. Over the past few years, Ukraine has signed bilateral security agreements with a number of countries

Whether they'll be worth more than the paper they're written on in practice remains to be seen, but at least collaborations on military hardware are proceeding apace and countries other than the US have continued to step up their support.

I think most of the European NATO countries feel the need for Ukraine to be in NATO as keenly as Ukraine feels the need to join it. It will be de facto a buffer on Russia's southwestern front for the foreseeable future anyway, never mind what Trump meddingly blethers about. Once Putin's gone, the geopolitical situation may change - hopefully for the better - but I doubt it before then.

Putin has done himself no favours by making his attacks on the likes of Poland more blatant. The Poles were feeling pretty belligerent with Russia and Belarus anyway.