Why can't Russia tolerate Ukraine's membership in NATO?

Why can't Russia tolerate Ukraine's membership in NATO? This issue involves European security issues, the legitimate concerns of all countries, and Russia's legitimate security demands in the context of nato's five consecutive rounds of eastward expansion. Only from the perspective of NATO, the Warsaw Pact, NATO's eastward expansion, Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, and Russia can we clearly see the truth, falsity, and the merits of the matter, and why Russia cannot tolerate Ukraine's accession to NATO.

Let's start with NATO. What is "NATO"? If we want to talk about NATO, we must first start with The Churchill Iron Curtain. After World War II, the West began to oppose the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, led by the Soviet Union, most notably Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech. It was March 5, 1946, when former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered an anti-Soviet and anti-communist speech at Westminster College in Fulton, USA, in which he used the term "Iron Curtain" to attack the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, that is, "shrouded in an Iron Curtain." Hence the call of the "Iron Curtain Address." The Iron Curtain Speech is also considered to have officially opened the prelude to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. On March 12, 1947, the "Truman Doctrine" in the United States was introduced, marking the official beginning of the Cold War between the capitalist camp dominated by the United States and the socialist camp dominated by the former Soviet Union. The most emblematic is the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO for short, is an international organization established by European and North American countries to achieve defense cooperation. On April 4, 1949, the United States, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Portugal, and Italy signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. The Convention provides that an armed attack on either State party shall be considered an attack on all States parties. The immediate purpose of NATO was to confront and defend against a group of Communist countries in Eastern Europe, led by the former Soviet Union.

Let's talk about the Warsaw Pact. In order to counter the threat of "NATO", especially the United States, Britain and France decided to recruit the Federal Republic of Germany (i.e., West Germany) into NATO, on May 14, 1955, the former Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and the GDR (i.e., East Germany) signed the Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Cooperation in Warsaw, and on June 5 of the same year, when the treaty entered into force, the Military-Political Alliance - Warsaw Pact, referred to as the "Warsaw Pact".

NATO and the Warsaw Pact are two military confrontation groups with pinpoints against Mai Mang, with NATO established first and the Warsaw Pact established later. However, under the propaganda of the West, the Warsaw Pact became an evil military alliance, while NATO became a heroic organization that resisted the Warsaw Pact. In the early 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was dissolved because there was no big brother to lead the way. At that time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who had succeeded the Soviet Union, offered to join NATO, but NATO did not agree. When putin arrived, Putin began to ask to join NATO, and nato led by the United States ignored it. NATO has repeatedly made it clear to Russia that NATO will not expand eastward to join NATO because of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, let alone the republics of the former Soviet Union to join NATO. But then NATO rebelled and expanded eastward for five consecutive times, not only absorbing the former Warsaw Pact member states to join NATO, but also absorbing the Soviet republics that emerged independent from the disintegration of the Soviet Union into NATO step by step.

Now let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine is a country located in the plains of Eastern Europe, also known as Little Russia, Rosenia. It was the center of medieval East Slavic culture, and Kievan Rus, the common ancestor of peoples such as modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, was developed in Kiev. After that, the historical ties between Ukraine and Russia and Belarus were very close. In 1941, the Soviet-German War broke out, and all of Ukraine was occupied by Germany, and in 1944, the Soviet army liberated all of Ukraine and assigned Western Ukraine, which was originally Polish territory, to Ukraine. In 1954, Khrushchev proposed that the Soviet Union give away the Crimean regions previously seized in the Russo-Turkish War from Russia to Ukraine. In this way, the territory of Ukraine formed its later scale.

Let's talk about Russia's breakup with Ukraine. In 1985, after Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, he vigorously advocated reform, but the "openness" and "democratization" of the reform line he proposed quickly led to the emergence of various political forces throughout the Soviet Union, the various contradictions accumulated in history and reality began to surface, the tendency of nationalism and national independence rose rapidly, and the political situation in the whole country began to spiral out of control. It was in this context that Ukraine's independence emerged. In 1990, the February Plenary Session of the CPSU Central Committee and the Congress of People's Congress of the USSR on March 14 repudiated the provisions of the Soviet Constitution on the ruling status of the Communist Party, and the Soviet Union quickly formed a multi-party system. Against this backdrop, various political parties in Ukraine have been formed and have begun to operate publicly. In July 1990, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the Declaration of Independence. After the "8.19" incident in the Soviet Union in 1991, Kravchuk, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, took the lead in withdrawing from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and then the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declared the official independence of Ukraine. August 24, 1991 was officially designated as Ukraine Independence Day. On August 30, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine decided to stop the activities of the Ukrainian Communist Party, and on December 1, Ukraine held a referendum in which 83% of the people voted, and more than 90% of the people voted in favor of Ukraine's secession from the Soviet Union and the establishment of an independent state. On December 8, the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus signed the Belovezh Agreement in Minsk, declaring that the Soviet Union no longer existed, that Ukraine's independence was finally completed, and that Russia and Ukraine had finally broken up. After the breakup of Russia and Ukraine, ukraine still broke the connection, and Ukraine got a lot of weapons and a large number of industrial manufacturing and military enterprises from the former Soviet Union. Because Ukraine was unwilling to pay the debts it had shared before the breakup, Russia had to pay off the debts it had owed before the breakup, but Ukraine was unwilling to give up its common pre-partition debts, and these Russias tolerated it for the sake of their brothers.

To tell the truth, Russia and Ukraine have been brothers with broken bones and tendons since ancient times, and after the brothers broke up, they should have cooperated with each other, helped each other, and developed together. At home, we should take good care of the interests of all nationalities, do a good job in the integration of all nationalities, promote the unity of all nationalities, and regard the different nationalities in the East and the West as favorable conditions for promoting Russia and the West. As a little brother, Ukraine can at least act as a buffer zone between Russia and the North, act as a mediator, neither side can be guilty, both sides eat all, and develop itself in a muffled voice for the benefit of the Ukrainian people. However, several men and women in Ukraine who started with the "Orange Revolution" had to listen to the flickering of the United States and other Western countries, and the coup overthrew the democratically elected president Yanukovych, and after becoming the president of Ukraine, they fell to the West in an all-round way, and vigorously advocated that Ukraine join NATO and throw itself into the arms of the United States. In particular, the naïve and unrecognized actor President Zelenskiy has reached the pinnacle of his heart to act as a pawn for NATO to attack Russia, and has stubbornly pushed the muzzle of NATO's gun to russia's throat. Can Russia hurt itself by allowing its brotherly Ukraine to join NATO? Don't say that Russia, which has a tough president like Putin, cannot be tolerated and tolerated by anyone!