Former PM who came to power after the anti-Moscow Orange Revolution fears her country is turning into a ‘disenfranchised colony’ that is losing its sovereignty
There was also opposition inside Ukraine, where an opinion poll just before the Bucharest summit showed that one in two voters opposed Nato membership, while just one in four were in favour. The rest were undecided.
Wouldn’t that alone have prevented Ukraine from joining? It wouldn’t have mattered if there was clear acceptance by every NATO nation, if the majority of Ukrainians themselves were not in favor.
Wouldn’t that alone have prevented Ukraine from joining? It wouldn’t have mattered if there was clear acceptance by every NATO nation, if the majority of Ukrainians themselves were not in favor.
If “an opinion poll” was the actual vote, yes.
Polls are evil and wrong. But then so is pretty much everything about creating, measuring, and maintaining public opinion.