Tells you all you need to know about the alliance, the people who came up with this proposition and more importantly the people who’re actually seriously considering it. So as it may turn out that its NOT a question of “Values” after all where people have sacrificed their lives to protect (past and present) but rather purely a matter of “CHIPS”. Well in that case and if it is that simple why hasn’t this been tabled before by Ukraine, and shouldn’t citizens across Europe who’ve paid into supporting Ukraine in this ongoing conflict not to mention the financial implications for them of the bombing of the Nordstream gas pipeline (still unpaid for) put forth this question; where the hell has our money gone, or will we eventually be reimbursed with CHIPS? But then again I have to remind myself how conceding land to the aggressor can sometimes work miracles like in the 1938 Munich Agreement and perhaps this should become the new NATO Chips Model; we need to be pragmatic after all.