Since when are the US and Ukraine "allies"?
On what basis, and according to who?
“Since when are the US and Ukraine “allies”?”
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Answer:
According to who : Both Republican and Democrat administrations.
On what basis : The Budapest Memorandum, signed by the USA in 1991.
Explanation:
In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” and “to refrain from the threat or use of force” against the country. Those ASSURANCES played a key role in persuading the Ukrainian government in Kyiv to give up what amounted to the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal, consisting of some 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads.
When the USSR broke up in late 1991, there were nuclear weapons scattered in the resulting post-Soviet states. The George H. W. Bush administration attached highest priority to ensuring this would not lead to an increase in the number of nuclear weapons states.
That was the moment (1991) America and Ukraine became allies. Bush was President.
UKRAINE kept its promise of the Budapest Memorandum deal, they got rid of all their nuclear arsenal. That made the USA very happy.
RUSSIA violated the Budapest Memorandum deal in 2014, by land-grabbing and annexing Crimea (part of Ukraine).
USA kept its promise in assuring a response to Russia in case it would one day violate the deal (Russia violated it in 2014). Obama didn’t do much though.
Trump however was proactive in keeping the promise of assuring military help to Ukraine. He sent loads of high-tech weaponry to Ukraine (to help it defend itself) and has been the toughest on Russia in many ways.
When Biden became President, Trumps policies towards Ukraine were continued and even enhanced... simply because Russia went further and attacked whole of Ukraine.