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When there is a will, there are ways to find the solution. But you need a line which defines where Article 5 is invoked, and Ukraine has to control all the territory until that border,
the former Secretary General added They didn’t have an embassy in East Berlin. But Nato was of course only protecting West Germany."
Another example Stoltenberg cited was West Germany, which considered East Germany to be part of a bigger Germany Again, it is always very dangerous to compare because no parallels are 100% correct, but the United States has security guarantees to Japan. But they don’t cover the Kuril [Islands], which Japan regards as Japanese territory, controlled by Russia,
I think we all have to admit, we should have given them more weapons pre-invasion. And we should have given them more advanced weapons, faster, after the invasion. I take my part of the responsibility,
I’m proud of what we have done, but it would have been a great advantage if it started earlier. It maybe could even have prevented the invasion, or at least made it much harder for [Russia] to do what they’ve done,
Whether it was a 10 per cent likelihood that NATO would collapse under Trump or 90 per cent, it didn’t change what we had to do,
If there’s anything I in a way regret and see much more clearly now is that we should have provided Ukraine with much more military support much earlier,
Jens Stoltenberg told the Financial Times Most allies were against that, pre-invasion … they were very afraid of the consequences,