As we ponder how our day's Dr. Strangeloves want Ukraine to join NATO so that we'll be obligated to war against Russia if it attacks its western, kleptocratic neighbor, we should consider a certain point. It isn't just, as some have pointed out, that Cold War relic NATO has outlived its usefulness. It's not just that Russia, no longer being the Soviet Union, has no intention of invading Western Europe and couldn't pull off a Julius-Caesar-in-Gaul even if it did. It's also this:
