The Netherlands one Western governments typically refrain from commenting on such sensitive matters , but this detail is likely to be seized upon by Moscow , which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine but NATO as well . Oh , and , and essentially , look , this was the , um , uh , uh I think what , when Putin ultimately decided to invade Ukraine last year , I think basically what he concluded was that they did it , they brought Ukraine into NATO , even though Ukraine is not an official NATO country . At this point .
They poured weapons into the country and they were doing , um , joint training exercises with NATO and the Ukrainian military . And I think Vladimir Putin was basically like we told them this was our brightest of red lines and they crossed it and I got to do something now , I'm not saying he should have done this . There's other things he could have done .
Um , the , there's lots of things , I mean , I don't know exactly you get creative but he could have cut off all natural gas to Europe he could have dropped a nuke in the ocean . I mean , he could have done something before he did this , you know , but he basically concluded that Ukraine is , is de facto a member of NATO . And if you look at the way we're responding to this whole thing , he's , he's kind of right .
Uh , which is , which is pretty dangerous . Um Western special forces operating inside Ukraine . One document dated 23 March refers to the presence of a small number of Western special forces operating inside Ukraine without specifying their activities or location .
They backed the coup that overthrew the democratic , uh , the democratically elected government under Yanukovych . They poured weapons into the country and they were doing , um , joint training exercises with NATO and the Ukrainian military . And I think Vladimir Putin was basically like we told them this was our brightest of red lines and they crossed it and I got to do something now , I'm not saying he should have done this .
