| > Ukraine was not joining NATO Oh my god, you're just ignorant. NATO itself said they would join the alliance back in 2008. > At the 2008 Bucharest summit, NATO declined to offer Ukraine a Membership Action Plan, but said that Ukraine would eventually join the alliance. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations Also mentioned even in NATO's own website: https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/partnerships-and-cooperat... You can read the full statement from 2008 here: https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resource... This was the trigger for the Russian invasion of Georgia, which was also mentioned in the above statement. Do you think NATO is spreading Russian propaganda on its website?? |
Nowadays, this is widely considered a severe mistake. For example, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, has on many occasions referred to the exclusion of Ukraine and Georgia as mistakes that emboldened Putin to invade them.
Perhaps you should drop him an email to explain that he doesn't know what he's talking about and that Ukraine was "actually" on the path to NATO membership. So much ignorance in the world, ain't there.