Completely made up BS, as so often in those discussions.

NATO is the USA. If they actually wanted to allow Ukraine to join, they could've.

And Ukraine never even attempted to join until AFTER the invasion in 22.

And it was not Germany in particular that spoke out against the idea of Ukraine joining NATO back in 2008. Basically every member said it would unnecessarily aggrevate Russia. Blaming that on Germany is disingenuous to a stupid level.