ukrainian president vladimir lindsey. he had called it a miscalculation that she and her french counterpart, former president nicholas sock, was lock you crazy. across to join nato, back in 2008 merkel is defending her decision by pointing out that ukraine wasn't an internally democratic country. and that it was divided and run by all the works, but then merkel added that ukraine was not the one we know today from a tip. diplomacy does not succeed, it has not necessarily been wrong. so i do not see that. i have to say it was wrong now, and therefore i will not apologize. vacation seems to be that now ukraine is the thriving democracy that totally belongs into the transit learning alliance demands, democratic stability as the absolute lowest common denominator for membership. ukraine tried to, jo nato, would be like someone still scribble on the walls. applying to harvard university, ukraine has never met the criteria of democracy and simply saying that it does now reduce any incentive to work on becoming one. if that's wh