Bush wanted Ukraine in NATO, France and Germany said no.
The dean of America’s Russia experts, George F. Kennan, had called the expansion of NATO into Central Europe “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.” Kennan, the architect of America’s post-World War II strategy of containment of the Soviet Union, believed, as did most other Russia experts in the United States, that expanding NATO would damage beyond repair U.S. efforts to transform Russia from enemy to partner.
The real history of the war in Ukraine. France and Germany signed on to Ukraine being in NATO.
https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine