It does not. NATO membership is the initiative of Eastern European governments out of fear that Russia will invade them if they remain neutral like Ukraine, against hesitancy and skepticism of North America and Western Europe who thought until last year that this is a silly idea and a manifestation of historic trauma, and not a real danger.
Hence the US helped Hitler get elected, hence they helped zelensky get elected
It's easier to ignore history books and follow a government propaganda, you don't have to think! saves some neurons, or perhaps that's because we don't need them stupid neurons
The completely unrelated pieces about Iraq and Poppy Bush, even less so.
Strangely, the Reuters article you linked to was about the separatists getting arms from Russia, not Ukraine.