The US will never let Ukraine join NATO:
CNN:
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken called it a “reflection of reality” for Zelensky to signal today that he will not join NATO anytime soon.
“I think first of all it’s a reflection of reality that even before this aggression by Russia, Ukraine was not going to get into NATO tomorrow. All the more reason why as we’ve seen when Putin was saying that their concerns about Ukraine centered on its admission to NATO, that was wrong. That was a lie,” Blinken said.
They want to be able to say that Putin is LYING and that there is no threat of Ukraine joining NATO, and Putin's fear of Ukraine joining NATO is just crazy and unfounded.
Also, Zelensky himself has said he knows that Ukraine can never join NATO:
"We have heard for many years about the open doors, but we also heard that we can't enter those doors. This is the truth and we have simply to accept it as it is."
