re: US Tells Russia That NATO May Continue Expansion East, Russia Says It May Use Force

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the original agreement was that the U.S. and NATO would protect Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasions in exchange for Ukraine voluntarily giving up their nuclear weapons.

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That was not really the agreement. NATO wasn’t a party to any of those documents, and none of them obligated the US to protect Ukraine militarily. We had a long thread on here a while back about it.

There are a lot of misunderstandings on what the Budapest memorandum and the subsequent bilateral treaties with Ukraine actually say. They are short, go read the text. It’s diplomatic legalese with no teeth and no enforcement mechanisms.