Kissinger says Russia’s war validates Ukraine’s NATO membership bid
Henry Kissinger has said Russia’s invasion shows there is no longer a point in keeping Ukraine out of NATO, Kyiv’s long-held aspiration he had previously opposed.
The 99-year-old former US secretary of state has for months advocated a ceasefire in the Ukraine war that would in effect accept some military gains by Russia.
But speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kissinger said that NATO membership for Ukraine would be an “appropriate outcome”.
“Before this war, I was opposed to membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start exactly the process that we have seen now,” Kissinger said.
“Now that this process has reached this level,” he said, “the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful.”