nato. so what do you make of that? what i make of it is that that is an excuse the real reason for not letting ukraine into nato right now is that the president and other nato allies are in this very delicate balancing act. they don t want to get into a war with russia, which is a nato nuclear um, opponent. they don t want a nuclear war and so on the one hand, they re trying to provide ukraine with his many weapons as they need. they made significant progress. 11 nations are going to be training ukrainian pilots on f sixteen s. it looks like france is now going to give ukraine the long range weapons that they had been asking for. and usually that will likely pave the way for the us to give them attack them, which are the long range missiles they ve needed. so this is a balancing act. but it is also important to point out. remember in 2008. there was a very important meeting in bucharest in which the bush administration put out that