Leaving the door open to Ukraine joining NATO has been US policy since 2008 [1]: > Then, in 2008, at a NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, President George W. B

Leaving the door open to Ukraine joining NATO has been US policy since 2008 [1]: > Then, in 2008, at a NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, President George W. Bush crossed that Rubicon, committing NATO to bringing in Ukraine and Georgia—another former Soviet republic left out of the previous decade’s enlargement—at some point in the undefined future. My suspicion is neither Europe nor the US actually wants Ukraine in NATO but dangling that possibility keeps a pro-Western regime in Ukraine. [1]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/putin-george-bush-blame-russia-ukraine.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/putin-george-bus...