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    NATO says ‘yes, but’ to Ukraine; ‘no, but’ to Putin

    by Anna Mulrine Grobe Dec 17, 2021 4 minutes

    If Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mass deployment of troops on his country’s border with Ukraine is meant to deter NATO from allowing the former Soviet republic to join its ranks, the Western alliance says publicly that it won’t be pushed around. 

    “Ukraine has the right to choose its own security arrangements,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday. “And the decision on whether Ukraine can join NATO will be taken by Ukraine and 30 NATO allies alone.”

    But that does not mean that the allies are ready to make the former Soviet republic a member. Indeed, behind

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