Originally Posted by chunkstyle
It’s an admission that we weren’t taking Russia’s security concerns seriously and refused to negotiate.
Did you mean to say we weren’t taking Ukraine’s security concerns seriously enough?

I wonder if Putin would have invaded his neighbor (twice) if it had been a NATO member…

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller