Ukraine henry kissinger biography

Former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's stance on Ukraine has changed over the years, including on whether the country should become a NATO member.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, the 99-year-old Kissinger said: "Before this war, I was opposed to membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start exactly the process that we have seen now.

"The idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful."

Kissinger, who was instrumental to U.S.

Cold War policy toward the Soviet Union when he served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has long said Ukraine should remain neutral and not join NATO. Despite this, he said at Davos that the country joining the Transatlantic alliance could be an "appropriate outcome" of Russia's invasion.

He said that dialogue must be kept open between Russia and other countries even as the war rages on in Ukraine.