Nato has 'deep institutional guilt' over Ukraine membership, says Boris JohnsonSource: Putin v The West, BBC
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00:00 There's a deep institutional guilt in NATO,
00:04 because if NATO had followed through on the things that it said
00:08 and actually put the Ukrainians on the proper path to membership,
00:11 there's no argument for saying that Putin would not have done what he did.
00:15 It was our collective ambiguity for so long,
00:19 endlessly sucking and blowing at the same time,
00:22 that was so fatal, because Putin thought, "Right, well, they're not serious."
00:26 And so I think that everybody around the table felt a kind of obligation
00:31 to the Ukrainians, to help them materially in whatever way we could.
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