“We have decided to offer Ukraine NATO membership. But it is also clear that we must all agree on it if it is to happen,” said Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen following the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 13.
Poulsen must have referred to the previous U.S. president’s wish for Ukraine to be in NATO, because the new president’s defense minister, Pete Hegseth, said the opposite following Donald Trump’s 90-minute telephone talk with Vladimir Putin: No NATO for Ukraine, and give up territory, meaning Donbas and Crimea, which joined the Russian Federation by referendum.