Danish professor says plans to include Ukraine in NATO are mistaken

NATO countries made the biggest mistake in history when they tried to make Ukraine a member of the alliance. Jan Oberg, a Danish professor and director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Studies (TFF), said this in an interview with the YouTube channel Neutral Studies on November 30.

"Now there is a situation where we have made the biggest mistake in history in trying to make Ukraine a NATO member. More and more resources are being spent to support a war that will not succeed. The West will not succeed in splitting Russia, nor will they succeed in making their all other inadequate ideas a reality," Oberg said.

According to the professor, after the fall of the "U.S. empire," the North Atlantic Alliance will cease to exist. Under such conditions, there will be an opportunity to create a global humanitarian security system.

Oberg also noted that NATO should have been abolished in 1991, as the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist.

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Earlier in the day, the NYT reported on Ukraine's low chances of joining NATO under the Trump administration. According to the article, the Russian advance in the east complicates any discussion of a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term expired on May 20, especially regarding the territory that would fall under NATO's protection.

A day earlier, Zelensky said in an interview with British television channel Sky News that he might agree to a cease-fire and giving up some territory in exchange for Ukraine's NATO membership. He said NATO membership should be offered to Kiev-controlled parts of the country to end the "hot phase," provided that the NATO invitation itself recognizes Ukraine's internationally recognized borders.

Former U.S. Congressman and Florida Republican Matt Gaetz noted after Zelensky's Nov. 29 statement that admitting Ukraine to NATO would be a terrible idea.

Earlier, on November 23, Bloomberg reported that the administration of current U.S. President Joe Biden was considering the option of publicly urging NATO countries to invite Ukraine into the alliance after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. However, this step was abandoned due to the low hope for success.

The director of the Center for European Information, Nikolay Topornin, told Izvestiya on 21 November that a number of NATO member states were wary of giving membership to Ukraine. In particular, Berlin, Washington and Paris do not support the idea of admitting Kiev to the bloc. The fact is that Ukraine does not fully meet the necessary Western standards, and the alliance countries do not want to become parties to the conflict.

Ukraine applied to join NATO on an accelerated basis on September 30, 2022. Zelenskyy said at the time that the country was already in the alliance and met its standards.