Well, your quote doesn't support your statement, right? Baltic countries - former Soviet republics - aren't Ukraine, and they went to NATO - quite some years ag

Well, your quote doesn't support your statement, right? Baltic countries - former Soviet republics - aren't Ukraine, and they went to NATO - quite some years ago already. Meanwhile, Ukraine is not in NATO, doesn't even have guarantees it'll be there, even after this war (which I frankly consider stupid, given that NATO was created to deter the predecessor of Russia, and it's Ukraine which is actually doing that in the battlefield). And I'd take William J Burns words with some grain of salt. It's likely "anyone" who he had to find were from some selected circle of rather like-minded persons.