Ukraine is not part of NATO, we are not obliged to defend them. In fact, we want it for ourselves. Hell, the US and its allies cannot beat Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran. It just never ends.
Read those posts again, Ukraine isn’t in them, our military alliance maintaining its military readiness is and NATO not doing so has been a widely mentioned shortcoming here, until they started fixing the problems that is.
Exactly, it never ends via treaty or not.
Which is exactly why NATO encroachment is a myth.
Since day one, the proximate cause of this invasion like his Crimean invasion in 2014 were sky rocketing oil prices.
The $23/bbl difference fr pre Biden to now is worth $90,000,000,000/yr in added revenue at face value on oil alone.
This will end with drill, drill, drill or whenever Putin decides to end it or absolutely zero change since day one.