Timeline of how NATO Provoked the War in Ukraine

1995		William J Burns	Warns of dangers of NATO expansion to Ukraine [1]
1997		George F. Kennan	Warns of dangers of eastward NATO expansion [2]
2008		William J Burns	Warns of dangers of NATO expansion to Ukraine [3]
2008		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NATO	Affirms Ukraine will become a member of NATO.
2009		Stephen Pifer	Warns of risks of NATO membership for Ukraine
2015		Professor John Mearsheimer University of Chicago	Blames the West for Ukraine unrest [4]
Dec 2021		President Putin	Demands guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO
Jan 2022		Anthony Blinken Secretary of State	Rejects any negotiation with Russia. Asserts right of Ukraine to join NATO [7]
Jan 2022		Jens Stoltenberg NATO	Rejects any negotiation with Russia. Asserts right of Ukraine to join NATO [7]
Feb 2022		President Putin	Invades Ukraine
March 2022		Mevlut Cavusoglu Minister of Foreign Affairs	Mediates Istanbul peace talks
3 March 2022		Roman Abramovich	Helps mediate Istanbul peace deal
10 March 2022		Liz Truss Foreign Secretary	Imposes sanctions on Roman Abramovtch [9]
April 2022		Boris Johnson Prime Minister	Flies to Ukraine to sabotage Istanbul peace deal [5]
2022		Professor David Hendrickson Colorado College	Believes NATO expansion provoked the Ukraine war [8]
2023		Professor Jeffrey Sachs Columbia University	Believes NATO expansion provoked the Ukraine war
2023		Jens Stoltenberg NATO	Confirms NATO expansion provoked the Ukraine war [6]

References

1. “hostility to early NATO expansion is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.”
   Burns, a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, reported to Washington. (William J Burns 'The Back Channel')
2. Expanding NATO would be a “fateful error” because it would “inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion.”(NY Times 5/2/1997)
3. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin.”
   "hard to overstate the strategic consequences” (of offering NATO membership to Ukraine)
   Burns, U.S. ambassador in Moscow, memo to Condoleezza Rice. (William J Burns 'The Back Channel')
4. John Mearsheimer, 4/6/2015, University of Chicago, 'Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?'
5. Roman Romaniuk: 'From Zelenskyy's "surrender" to Putin's surrender: how the negotiations with Russia are going'; 5/5/22, Ukrainska Pravda
6. Jens Stoltenberg, "Putin went to war to prevent more NATO expansion along Russia's borders",7/9/23, Speech to EU
7. RFE/RL: "U.S. Rejects Russian Demand On NATO Expansion, But Offers 'Path' Out Of Ukraine Crisis", 26/01/22
8. Professor David Hendrickson 'The Causes of the War', The American Conservative, 04/03/22
9. "Abramovich and Deripaska among 7 oligarchs targeted in estimated £15 billion sanction hit", UK Foreign Office, 10/3/2022