re Skybird all good and well and understandable. Never underestimate Russia and Putin's ideas of making Rusia great again (ahem), however what he has said and written up to now is more reasonable than anything i heard of NATO or the US.
Look at this chart and tell me what you see.
https://crp-infotec.de/wp-content/up...er-aktuell.gif
Getting Ukraine into NATO would be a bit too much, don't you think so? Be realistic, the eastward expansion is a reality.
Of course we have the german wonder weapon Mrs Baerbock as a foreign minister, maybe some hope Putin laughs himself to death when they meet