BBCNEWS BBC News January 30, 2022 22:25:00
It was not helped, and i spoke in the house eight years ago on this, by people loosely saying, let's let the ukraine and georgia join. they were by no means ready to meet the criteria to join nato and saying it was reallyjust poking the bear with a stick. so i don't think anyone thinks ukraine is likely tojoin nato in the next five to ten years. so there's surely some scope there to come up with something. similarly to crimea, it was unacceptable that he invaded it but you need to look at the history of it as well. these things aren't clear—cut but what is very clear is we must not sacrifice...