France
Reports
Célia Belin
Interim Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
[The intelligence community recommended against offering a membership path to Ukraine and Georgia, because much of NATO opposed it, but it was overridden by Mr. Bush. The compromise was brokered by the British... but] it was the worst of all possible outcomes. [Mr. Putin] has been trying to shut that door ever since.