Me and my people are bullied less, it is true.

Welcome to the boycott!

If they joined immediately, NATO would have to directly engage Russia now – which would be bad, especially with the US being shitty right now.

If they predicate membership on a Russian attack it will defer and potentially remove that risk. Seems like a solid idea to me.

They have access to priceless, otherwise unobtainable, data with no ethics. They’ll unfortunately get paid one way or another.