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If Ukrainians stopped electing governments that seek this goal, Russia wouldn't be threatening to invade.
One could also argue that if Russia hadn't already unlawfully invaded Ukraine (Crimea), annexed part of its territory and kept threatening to invade again with massive and provocative troop deployments, the people of Ukraine wouldn't be quite so keen about joining a military alliance, the primary purpose of which is to protect its members against Russian military aggression.
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I get that, but they can't compel a country to join. I think Stop the War are ignoring the recorded desire of the Ukrainian government to join NATO (and indeed the EU). If Ukrainians stopped electing governments that seek this goal, Russia wouldn't be threatening to invade. Isn't the Stop the War position effectively ignore the democratic will of the Ukrainian people?