“Apart from former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Zelenskyy himself has stated that even during Biden’s time, he was clearly told that Ukraine would not become a NATO member,” the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, told journalists.

Moreover, according to Papuashvili, it is a tragic situation that at the end of a war begun over NATO expansion, Ukraine and others are being told that NATO will not expand and never intended to expand.

“NATO will not expand and never intended to expand; in truth, this was said by Boris Johnson himself. Ukraine has been fighting for four years, including for its own right to be a NATO member, and at the end of this war, they’re being told that they never intended to admit Ukraine to NATO,” Papuashvili noted.

At the same time, the Speaker said, we heard every year that Ukraine and Georgia would become NATO members.

“We heard after the Bucharest Summit, after 2008, year after year, every year we heard about the open door, that Ukraine and Georgia would definitely become NATO members. Every year, Ukraine was told that it would definitely, definitely, definitely become a member. It now seems that they never actually intended Ukraine to join NATO.

This has two explanations. One is that this was deceit, which some Western politicians may have engaged in. The other is sabotage, to delude the country, to create a perception, as the Europe-funded NGOs and Europeans are so fond of doing, that it’s already standing at the threshold of the open door, already at the window, about to step through, so that deluded by this they would go for any escalation, as Saakashvili did in 2008, as we saw happen in Ukraine more than once.

In the final analysis, when push came to shove, when war began, not a single NATO soldier stood in the trenches. This is the truth that we see once again so clearly today. This is precisely the tragic reality. In truth, there’s nothing new in this either.

We, Georgians, are saved by our centuries-old history, because in reality, nothing new is happening. World politics has always been arranged this way; it’s just that for a certain period they packaged it very well, presenting us beautifully with that imaginary reality which didn’t actually exist,” Papuashvili stated.

For context, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson stated last week during the Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen: “I attended practically every significant NATO meeting from 2016 to 2022, and there was never even the slightest chance of Ukraine joining NATO, because any such proposal would immediately provoke a veto from France, Germany, the USA, and many other states.”

Moreover, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that he directly asked former U.S. President Biden whether Ukraine could join NATO, to which Biden replied: “No, you will not be in NATO.”