Doesn't matter we did, I can no longer see financially supporting another nation while we allow our own to languish in destruction. However we gave our word.
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Well let's win this thing and end it instead of pussyfooting around
There isn't and never was such a treaty. Furthermore, Ukraine never had operational control; the weapons were based there when the USSR was dying, and the concern by the west then was not to increase the number of nuclear powers in the world. We wanted them moved back to Russia.
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There isn't and never was such a treaty. Furthermore, Ukraine never had operational control; the weapons were based there when the USSR was dying, and the concern by the west then was not to increase the number of nuclear powers in the world.
We also explicitly promised we would not expand NATO east ("not one inch" - US SecState), but in the 90's and early 2000's Russia was in such turmoil we felt we could do whatever we wanted. And we did, over the strong objections of many famous cold warriors.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard | National Security Archive
Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents
Note that the US has argued the BM is not binding. https://web.archive.org/web/20140419030507/http://minsk.usembassy.gov/budapest_memorandum.html
It has been my often stated position that George Kennan etc were right when they strongly advised Pres Clinton that expanding to the east would ultimately lead to hostilities. It took almost 30 years but here we are. Ignorance? Intent? I don't know but here we are.
We've been over this...
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Carson says U.S. protection promises led Ukraine to give up its nukes
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson might be a superb neurosurgeon, but how well that has prepared him for the
"U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University."
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard | National Security Archive
Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents
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The tech for destroying MBT's isn't a secret and neither was the armor on the Abrams.After Russia destroyed several U.S. M1 Abraham main battle tanks in Ukraine, they now have a trophy one to exploit and build better RPG’s that will destroy the vulnerable areas of the tank’s armor. The Russians have gotten some good NATO trophies they will probably share with China. Nothing better than getting your hands on the technology being use by the other side, to exploit it and share it. Nothing like $1,000 rocket propelled grenade, destroying a $10 million dollar Tank… more so when numerous M1’s have been destroyed on the front lines.
Russia 'Seizes' Abrams Tank For The Very 1st Time; To Display US MBT As War Trophy At Moscow Exhibition
The first US-supplied M1 Abrams tank was evacuated by troops from the Russian military unit “Center” at the frontlines of the Avdiivka sector of Donbas, Alexander Savchuk, the group’s head of the press center, told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. Danish Air Force Decommissioned Its Entire...
"As late as March 1991, according to the diary of the British ambassador to Moscow, British Prime Minister John Major personally assured Gorbachev, “We are not talking about the strengthening of NATO.” Subsequently, when Soviet defense minister Marshal Dmitri Yazov asked Major about East European leaders’ interest in NATO membership, the British leader responded, “Nothing of the sort will happen.” (See Document 28)Funny... Gorbachev himself denied this.
Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says "No" | Brookings
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it well known his antipathy towards NATO, claiming the Alliance took advantage of Russian weakness after the collapse of the Soviet Union in violation of promises allegedly made to Moscow by Western leaders. Steven Pifer argues that no such promises were...
Mikhail Gorbachev: I am against all walls
The first and last president of the Soviet Union spoke with RBTH about the past and how it should inform the present.www.rbth.com
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