Originally Posted by
NAROBS
Yer but, if the West had accepted the primae facie Russian claim that all they wanted was for Ukraine not to be part of NATO and for no tactical nukes to be placed on its soil, then it would have temporarily stymied them and would, if invasion action had been taken after that, revealed the "Real" Russian agenda, if it substantially exists, . .
In that package were a few more demands: Among others a total retreat of NATO forces from the Eastern European Countries to a pre- 1997 state. They were tailored in a way that NATO/US could never accept them.