He means that NATO is to blame for not accepting Ukraine and Georgia into its ranks. But he will not say that this intention was

He means that NATO is to blame for not accepting Ukraine and Georgia into its ranks. But he will not say that this intention was the cause of the war. ‘NATO is partly to blame for the war in Ukraine’ – Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs ‘As for Ukraine, there are a couple of points. We invited Ukraine and Georgia to become candidate countries back in 2008 at the Bucharest summit. They became candidates. For 16 years now, we have been observing rather complicated events both in Georgia and Ukraine. And I believe that to some extent, some of the ambiguity that, unfortunately, we observe in the Alliance has become part of the problem that we now see in Europe when we look at the war in Ukraine’. Source: Victor vicktop55