balancing the interests of Russia and the West, while also being part of the West, is no longer morally or politically tenable
NATO is no ‘the west’ and vice versa.
I would just like to add that politico is part of Axel Springer SE and therefore trash.
Exactly zero people studied history in this channel. It explains a lot.
IIRC the issue is that NATO doesn’t necessarily want Austria since their institutions are heavily infiltrated by Russian spies?
Unfortunately, I don’t see any chance for that. The right wing nut job party is set to win the next elections and it is likely that the “moderate” party will form a coalition with them. Even suggesting to think about joining NATO at some point in the far future, would be political suicide.