Why is it a US problem? As far as past promises go, one of the reasons Russia is pushing into Eastern Europe again is that the US had promised not to pull those countries into NATO.
Another person has it in wiki link form, but the short answer is that when the USSR dissolved the former soviet states still had nukes. The USA said we'd protect them from the kinds of things they'd need nukes against if they give up their nukes.
They give them up. Then they get invaded barely 20 years later and the US lets them get fucked.
The term "color revolutions" haven't even been invented by the Kremlin propaganda until many years after the Americans convinced Ukraine to transfer their nuclear arsenal (at the time third greatest in the world overall) to Russia in exchange for dual security guarantees (also by Russia) and American money.
It was done at the time when the American trust in their newfound "Russian friends" was total and the Americans also invested money in the proping up the struggling Russian regime, including sponsoring the war on Chechnya which Clinton compared to Lincoln's fight to preserve the Union.
As for "economic pressure", the Americans also later paid Ukraine to just destroy all of their many remaining strategic missiles and bombers.
NATO? This is the kind of power that Ukraine had before America intervened to disarm them (and at the same time streghten Russian, paid by America):
Eliminating the strategic nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and strategic bombers in Ukraine was a big deal for Washington. The ICBMs and bombers carried warheads of monstrous size — all designed, built, and deployed to attack America. The warheads atop the SS-19 and SS-24 ICBMs in Ukraine had explosive yields of 400-550 kilotons each — that is, 27 to 37 times the size of the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima. The 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads — more than six times the number of nuclear warheads that China currently possesses — could have destroyed every U.S. city with a population of more than 50,000 three times over, with warheads left to spare.
Ukraine alone would be more powerful than all of European NATO, if not the American meddling.
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But it is our problem, but dems roll over and refuse to follow up on obligations we had from past treaties.
Why is it a US problem? As far as past promises go, one of the reasons Russia is pushing into Eastern Europe again is that the US had promised not to pull those countries into NATO.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
The US has repeatedly used economic pressure to influence Ukrainian politics, particularly with regards to coaxing them into the EU.
What was the context of Victoria Nuland’s quote “Fuck the EU”?
Another person has it in wiki link form, but the short answer is that when the USSR dissolved the former soviet states still had nukes. The USA said we'd protect them from the kinds of things they'd need nukes against if they give up their nukes.
They give them up. Then they get invaded barely 20 years later and the US lets them get fucked.
Part of that agreement is that the US wouldn't use economic pressure or color revolutions on them either, which obviously hasn't happened.
The term "color revolutions" haven't even been invented by the Kremlin propaganda until many years after the Americans convinced Ukraine to transfer their nuclear arsenal (at the time third greatest in the world overall) to Russia in exchange for dual security guarantees (also by Russia) and American money.
It was done at the time when the American trust in their newfound "Russian friends" was total and the Americans also invested money in the proping up the struggling Russian regime, including sponsoring the war on Chechnya which Clinton compared to Lincoln's fight to preserve the Union.
As for "economic pressure", the Americans also later paid Ukraine to just destroy all of their many remaining strategic missiles and bombers.
NATO? This is the kind of power that Ukraine had before America intervened to disarm them (and at the same time streghten Russian, paid by America):
Ukraine alone would be more powerful than all of European NATO, if not the American meddling.
What a cohencidence.
"Are you saying I can just search early life? "What I'm saying is, you won't have to."
“Yes, Putin might invade Ukraine. Heres why thats a good thing.”
Trade offer
You get: the Russian army murdering and burning and raping your people
You recieve: a senile diaper wearer and a kneepad warrior saying how bold and brave you are
Putin looks like he's up for a heart attack.
Everyone has hunter's laptop. I'm pretty sure the raw disk images have been leaked at this point.
The best part is that Russian hookers took it from him when he was passed on coke, according to himself in a video telling this to another hooker.
It's not THIS Michael Cohen, no.
I'm only making the 'cohencidence' pun once ITT :P
I really wish Putin would release the info instead of holding it as blackmail.