Comment by xixixao

I doubt it. Even fully “neutral” Ukraine, if modern, democratic, prosperous, would have been extremely dangerous to any corrupt autocrat in Russia. This is appeasement approach that WWII should have taught us not to take. Russian official are literally complaining about weak West response. Instead the NATO membership should have been accelerated, with the path for Russia to enter it in the future. Even Putin mentioned he asked Clinton about it. But he is obviously the sticking point.