According to the video, if you watch it, when the Baltic states were added Russia was in a very weak situation militarily and economically. I am not a foreign policy expert just telling you what was in the video so you won’t have to spend 90 minutes watching it.
Well, sure, strength vs. weakness is part of the set of issues over there.
At the time they signed it they left a ton of extremely dangerous strength on the ground but the relatively weak Ukes didn’t wanna have anything to do with that nuke strength of bein’ capable of killing hundreds of millions of people. I kinda admire that weakness vs. strength thing in that context.
At the time we all signed that agreement, America was strong, Russia weak, Ukraine weak. It made sense to sign it for all 3. Fast forward 3 decades, no it did not make sense for Ukraine to sign it because they have been invaded twice in violation of that agreement and keeping those nukes woulda voided off that whole problem both times.
In 2012 when oil & gas were discovered there were very very very [do ya get that ‘very’ thing yet?] very few ethnic incidents over Dumnbass Donbass or the other supposedly ethnic regions.
In 2014 Vlad invaded, having stirred up trouble in those regions where the oil & gas were. Russia was strong again, Ukraine still weak and more importantly, America had some weird anti-American weakling jackass as prez.
In 2016 America did not have a weakling anti-America as prez, and sure enough, Vlad flowed like water along the line of least resistance, didn’t cause trouble over there. Ukes were weak.
In 2021 America once again had a weakling jackass as prez and Vlad invades again.
Yes, strength-vs-weakness analysis has much to reveal about what is going on over there. But it really still is about oil because if the land was worthless, Vlad woulda ignored it.