“In 2008, Bush invited Ukraine to join NATO, poking the bear in the eye”,- Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). This statement was quoted by the Crimean occupation and federal media.
In fact, neither George Bush Jr. nor any other American president invited Ukraine to NATO.
Ukraine took the course to join the Alliance after the victory of the Orange Revolution. This decision was made by the president of Ukraine, the government and the parliament of the Ukrainian state, and not by the politicians of the NATO member states.
We would like to remind you that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has started a new section NATO in the media of the occupied Crimea, which aims to track fake information in the temporarily occupied Crimea about the values, goals and current activities of NATO and to debunk this information.