It is very bullshitty. Best I can gather is this amounts to them signaling a desire to handle the matter outside of the US’s purview. But since they are still rabidly NATO and they keep trying to play it off like Ukraine isn’t a NATO proxy, it looks kind of nonsensical.

Something like:

“Come to the table with us and deal!”

“On what terms?”

“The terms that benefit NATO!”

“Why the fuck would we do that.”

“I don’t know, we just want to be at the table.”