Yes. The people in the streets in Kiev were all shouting "NATO! NATO! NATO!",
Bush promised Gorbachev it would never happen,
Bush made no such promise. This is a lie which has been demolished many times. Stop repeating it, or prove to everyone on FR that you also are a liar.
it happened starting under the next President, Klintoon.
And that is why Ukraine is part of NATO today. [Facepalm.]
No President is bound by any promise made by his predecessors unless that promise is backed by a written treaty confirmed by the Senate.
Things may function differently in your native Russia, but they don't function that way here.
Russia will not allow all of Ukraine to be part of NATO. It will not allow Crimea to be a NATO base. Not now and not for the next 40 years.
And we should be supporting a country which believes it is entitled to dictate the foreign policy decisions of a sovereign neighbor because ...?
Stop spreading your Soviet lies and agitprop in a conservative forum.
....”we should be supporting a country which believes it is entitled to dictate the foreign policy decisions of a sovereign neighbor because”.....
Oh come on...the USA does it all the time....who do you think has been funding the take down of so many foreign Governments worldwide.....Libya, Egypt,Syria and others, and impossing our democratic ideas on those nations?
American interference and occupations of nations halfway around the world are considered noble.... But Russian interference in a part of a country right on its border is the supreme act of lawless, imperial aggression?....If we were in Putin’s shoes we’d be doing the same thing...and have to protect our interests.
Any who’ve been watching the Power players over the years know who they are and how they go about using their force and their tactics.
Like it or not Putin’s actions were entirely defensive against the “other players” messing with Ukraine...Basically the U.S. is objecting to attempts by Russia to play a smaller and even far less aggressive version of its own world game.