The number of Ukrainians who support joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has grown to the highest level since 2014, reaching 53 percent in June, according to a poll published on July 9.
Twenty-nine percent of Ukrainians said they would vote against joining NATO, while 14 percent were undecided, and 4 percent would not vote at all.
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The good news is that slightly more than half of the citizens of Ukraine had finally switched on the light bulbs in their heads. The bad news is that nearly half had not.
But none of this may make much difference. Given the current trends among NATO members states, and the recent contemptible surrender by PACE members of the very values that they pretend to represent, the likelihood of "unanimous" approval of Ukraine's membership is very dubious.