We now have outstanding U.S.-NATO war guarantees to 28 nations on the other side of the Atlantic, some of them tiny nations deep inside Eastern Europe, in the very shadow of Russia, the largest nation on earth. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has doubled in size. What is happening today is that, after decades of moving NATO east from the Elbe River to the Baltic states and borders of Russia itself, the chickens of NATO expansion are coming home to roost. If Ukraine and Georgia are not going to be admitted to NATO or given Article V war guarantees, why not say so publicly now? So, why not find a way to convey this reality, to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine and war Kyiv would surely lose? We have demonstrated that with our inaction in the Russian-Georgia war of 2008, in the Crimea and Donbass crises in 2014, and in the Ukraine crisis of 2021.

Bush sat immobile as Putin's Russia threw the invading Georgians out of South Ossetia.Р”Р„gain, America is not going to war for Georgia or Ukraine. or NATO going to war for Georgia to validate its claims to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as we showed in 2008. is also unlikely to send troops to defend Ukraine if Russia invades, as Ukraine is not a member of NATO. response to nonmilitary means.Р”В«ritish Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said that the U.K. economic sanctions' should Russia invade, that we are ruling out war and confining any U.S. has already signaled, with President Joe Biden's warning to Putin about 'severe. but there are other things that we are prepared to work with and merit some discussion.' 'There are some things in those documents that the Russians know will be unacceptable. official has been quoted as indicating such: should look closely to see if there are not some issues on which compromise is possible and common ground can be found so the Ukraine crisis might be defused. The deputy foreign minister is calling for immediate negotiations over these security pacts to begin in Geneva.Р”В«efore dismissing these Russian demands outright, the U.S. That Ryabkov's demands were specific and made public suggests they are to be taken seriously and Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind them. and NATO military bases would be prohibited. Russia is calling for the creation of a security zone around its borders to include all of the former Soviet Union and beyond, where U.S. And the accession of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia came only in 2004. For not until 1999 did Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join NATO. NATO should withdraw military infrastructure it has placed in Eastern European states after 1997. should forgo planting military bases in any of the five 'stans,' the Central Asian nations that once were part of the USSR. and Russia should keep their warships and strategic bombers away from each other's territory. Offensive weapons are to be kept out of nations that border Russia. Written guarantees from NATO that it will not admit into the 70-year-old Cold War alliance any more ex-Soviet republics, specifically, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. and NATO and provide Moscow with a pretext for an invasion and occupation of part or all of Ukraine. Ryabkov's demands appear to be a virtual ultimatum, designed to be rejected by the U.S. Ryabkov delivered last week as Russia's price for resolving the crisis created by those 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's borders. This might stand as a crude summary of two draft security pacts Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei A. (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images) Ukrainian servicemen on the front line with Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region on December 18, 2021.

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