Europe and NATO made a mistake regarding Ukraine, preventing it from becoming a member of NATO.
This was stated by the Minister of Economics of Germany Robert Habeck in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
For Europe, for NATO, for the West, it was a mistake to keep the door open for Ukraine and at the same time say: you can’t go there. It's annoying. Ukraine felt trapped between two fires. On the one hand, she is encouraged to work towards democracy and freedom and look to the West, on the other hand, she was not allowed to join, – said Robert Habek.
Khabek also acknowledged that Europe was not consistent in its position towards Ukraine.
– We promised protection from Russia, but did not want to see Ukraine as a NATO partner, we condemned the annexation of Crimea as a violation of international law, but built Nord Stream 2; we wanted Ukraine to defend itself – and thus the security of Europe – but please, not with our weapons,” Habek said.
Robert Habek also noted that theoretically, looking back, many things could have been done differently in order to prevent the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Regarding the closure of the skies over Ukraine, the minister bluntly stated that Germany is doing everything possible not to become a participant in the war itself.
“Then we would have had a different scenario, then NATO and Russia would have been at war,” Khabek said of the closing skies over Ukraine.
