That article is from July. In August and in September there have been a large number of articles about why Ukraine can't and won't join NATO. Many NATO countries are putting requirements that Ukraine can't meet. NATO itself is putting requirements that Ukraine refuses to meet.

As for Ukraine giving up nukes thanks to the USA, I don't think you understand anything about the situation. Ukraine was neutral and remained neutral as a condition of Russian national security. Ukraine having nukes meant Russia wasn't going to invade it but also that the USA wasn't going to invade it either. Having nukes meant Ukraine was stable and could remain neutral. Getting rid of Ukrainian nukes meant that suddenly conflagration was on the table. And the USA activated the Nazis and created a hot conflict back in 2008. 6 years later they supported the right-wing coup that wanted NATO, a transnational nuclear military, to establish it's capabilities within the country. So now we have no nukes owned by Ukraine, a non-neutral Ukraine, and the march of a nuclear military to Russia's border.

So yes, you can decontextualize historical facts all day long to craft whatever narrative you want. When you put the history together, the actual trajectory becomes quite clear.