During a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, President Joe (Granddaddy Joe) Biden made it clear that no country will get a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership card if that country is fighting a war because that will mean that all 31 member NATO countries will have to fight that country’s war.

Here’s what The White House wrote, in the Statements and Releases, that the president said, “First of all, no one can join NATO while the war-a war is going on, where a NATO nation is being attacked, because that guarantees that we’re in a war and we’re in a third world war.”

Common sense! It doesn’t make sense to let somebody join a group in exchange for you fighting a war for them. Wars take away time, money, and people. And nobody is about to lose their time, money, or people they need in order to maintain their country’s and group’s existence just so they can fight another country’s war.

All of this fuss about who, when, what, where, how, and when can join NATO came about due to Ukrainian President Volodymyr (Lil' V) Zelensky saying that it’s “absurd” that NATO won’t give his country a timeline for when they can join NATO. Chris Megerian and Seung Min Kim of the Associated Press quoted Zelensky as saying, “It’s unprecedented and absurd when time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership. Uncertainty is weakness. And I will openly discuss this at the summit.” Well, that right there made the NATO members pissing hot fiery mad.

United Kingdom Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Zelensky needs to show “gratitude” and recognize that it’s not NATO’s job to be his military equivalent of “Amazon”.

A senior diplomat, who doesn’t want anyone to know who he or she is, told the CNBC folks that folks from the U.S. of A made it very clear to Lil’ V that he’s getting very close to letting his mouth write a check that his hide can’t cash.

And as to be expected, all of that blowback had lil’ Volodymyr walking back. He decided to be a good Lil’ V and sit down with NATO and work somethings out so that he wouldn’t be hide out.

The somethings that have been worked out are reducing Ukraine’s process to join NATO from two-steps to one step, forming a NATO-Ukraine Council, and providing necessary items to Ukraine like gas, oil, military equipment, and supplies for their healthcare needs. NATO will also help to make sure that Ukraine moves over from their ol’ Soviet way of doing things to the NATO way of doing things.

Most importantly, NATO isn’t going to push the GO button on Ukraine’s membership into their group until after the Russia-Ukraine war has ended.