There is no reason that another country can determine via threat of military force another sovereign nation's right to join a military alliance. Even regardless of all the history between Ukraine and Russia, especially where Ukrainians were forcefully deported from their own country while part of the Soviet Union and replaced with Russian Nationals who are now used to justify invasion in Eastern Ukraine.
Russia has no right to tell another country who at can and cannot associate with and it is especially egregious that it's considered in any way justified for it to invade that country "defensively".
Ukraine for a long time was considered a corrupt country but you have to stop and think about where that corruption comes from. Post 1991 ex Soviet states are fundamentally married, at least at the start of their democratic journey, with corruption because the Soviet Union was such a corrupt place and the Russian federation at its inception was a corrupt place. Favors and power plays and underbellies and criminal elements merging with government were just a part of the way that those ex-soviet States function but since the invasion of Crimea in 2014 Ukraine has been starting to become a little cozy with the west.
Before that invasion there was no thought really of leaving Russia behind, but now that is becoming more and more a consensus in the country, and like other ex-warsaws like Estonia, Poland, Czechia who joined NATO to great success I think it's a no-brainer.
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