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.
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.