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On the recordJune 13, 2016
I think it was a strategic blunder that NATO did not admit Ukraine--and Georgia, by the way--in 2008.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel criticizes NATO's failure to admit Ukraine and Georgia in 2008 as a strategic mistake.

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