US floated idea of Ukraine swapping land for NATO membership, Zelensky says

So if there was a concrete proposal, Ukraine would at least consider it.

Swap the land that they no longer have anyway, for NATO membership, with the defense guarantee so they don't have to worry about Russia coming back against them in five years (or five weeks). I can see why that would make sense to them.

I can see that it would not please Putin - NATO membership is one of the things that he has considered unacceptable. But if it happened anyway, what would he do? My hope is that he would spin it to his people as a successful ending to his "special military" whatever. My fear is that he would immediately attack and put NATO to the test to see if the mutual defense commitment was real.