It didn’t ask repeatedly. It was on a membership onramp with other Eastern European countries and then Putin demanded to bypass political and other readiness processes and jump ahead and be admitted directly, and started scaling back cooperation when this jump-ahead proposal was denied.
It didn’t ask repeatedly. It was on a membership onramp with other Eastern European countries and then Putin demanded to bypass political and other readiness processes and jump ahead and be admitted directly, and started scaling back cooperation when this jump-ahead proposal was denied.