Ukraine has long sought to join NATO, and it is also because of Ukraine's attempt that it eventually led to Russia's launch of a "special military operation" on February 24, 2022, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is known as the biggest "black swan event" in 2022. The United States is using the idea that Ukraine can join NATO to lure the Kyiv authorities in Ukraine, thus allowing Ukraine to rush to the front line against Russia, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was the first country to dare to confront Russia.
According to US media reports, US State Department officials have publicly stated that Ukraine is currently unable to join NATO, which is tantamount to directly pouring cold water on Ukraine, and US State Department officials declared that because the Kiev authorities in Ukraine are too corrupt, they cannot meet the conditions for joining NATO. U.S. officials have made new demands on Kyiv to make a major breakthrough in the fight against corruption before it can join NATO. As for the US side's statement, the analysis of the global Beacon Line believes that it is just a pretext for the United States, because as far as the current situation is concerned, Ukraine's accession to NATO will lead to a direct conflict between NATO and Russia, which NATO cannot afford.
NATO's encirclement and containment of Russia is at most an attempt to force Russia into civil strife by exerting pressure on Russia, rather than NATO's direct military conflict with Russia, which is an important purpose of NATO's formulation of the "collective defense clause." The United States has long portrayed Russia as the biggest threat to Europe, in fact, it is to integrate European forces to deter Russia, not to destroy Russia through military strikes, because Russia has enough nuclear weapons to directly bomb Europe back to the Stone Age.
The West lures Ukraine with the pie of NATO member states, so that Ukraine can fight Russia for the interests of the West, so Ukraine is essentially a tool of NATO. NATO is willing to admit Finland and Sweden to join, rather than Ukraine to become a member of NATO, obviously Ukraine was betrayed by NATO, and now Ukraine is still "bent on joining NATO", so it is a great irony for the Kiev authorities in Ukraine. When the Ukraine crisis and conflict entered its third year, the DPP authorities on Taiwan Island were still fantasizing about the United States sending troops to protect the island, so there was a kneeling and licking strategy of the DPP authorities against the United States.
The United States prevaricated Ukraine's application to join NATO with a casual reason, and the United States will also use various excuses to deal with the DPP authorities, during the "Joint Sword-2024A" military exercise in the Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army, the two aircraft carriers of the US Navy hid far away, highlighting the hypocrisy of the Pentagon, and the US military slipped away at a critical moment, so the DPP's illusion about the United States has to pay a price.