Originally Posted by
NAROBS
To have prevented all of this, all the Russians were asking for was a written assurance from NATO that nukes would never be placed in Ukraine.
Seems small potatoes now compared with what's transpired.
Was that all they were "asking" for? Nothing about reassurance that Ukraine would never be allowed to join NATO?
And the assumption that they were actually asking for anything at all is tenuous. Its arguable that Putin had no intention of doing anything other than invading.