Trump has stated he will cut American aid to Ukraine, which makes a majority of total aid. Recently Zelensky stated that if Ukraine’s only hope for sovereignty is its own nuclear arsenal, they will build it.

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    13 days ago

    And that was the issue of the memorandum - it should’ve included something akin to Article 5

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      13 days ago

      Russia would have never signed on to that. Their whole argument about Ukraine is the constant advancement of NATO territories towards its border.

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        13 days ago

        Yeah… and Ukraine clearly shouldn’t have signed without it

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      The issue is that as someone already mentioned i doubt something like that was ever truly on the table.

      I think you can’t give assurances like that in a vacuum. If a nation e.g. the US would grant them, they’d only do so while simultaniously building up a physical presence in the territory and possibly also do deeper integrations military wise. You wouldn’t give such strong assurances while weakening your own ability to act on them.

      For Russia that would have never been acceptable.