I think Vlad knows he can’t have all of the Ukraine. He will be happy with Crimea and keeping his port on the Black Sea. He has been wanting to do this for a long time.
After Yalta, Vlad does have a point - history is on his side.
He’ll take as much as he can get and save the rest for later. That’s what I mean by salami slicing.
Khrushchev had no business giving it away in the first place.
He was just trying to throw a bone to the Ukrainians, since he acted as Stalin’s representative to the Ukraine, and he wanted to win them over to give him leverage in his power struggle.
” and has appealed for the United States and United Kingdom to protect it, as they guaranteed under a 1994 agreement.”
When did our Senate ratify a mutual defense pact with the Ukraine?
I’m not enthusiastic over anyplace being overrun by outsiders (as the Russians in this instance are); but as John Adams said, while we are sympathetic to others’ desires for liberty, we are custodians only of our own.
No president has the constitutional authority to commit the US to overseas wars without the express permission of Congress.