US Offers Ukraine 'Security' While Sacrificing Territory, Again
According to Bloomberg, the US is offering a 'security deal' in Ukraine talks, which the article itself admits is part of a renewed push to pressure President Zelenskyy on territory. This isn't newfound American pragmatism; it's a familiar pattern of strategic retreat disguised as diplomatic triumph. Recall Secretary of State James Baker's 1990 'no-eastern-expansion-of-NATO' assurance to Mikhail
Gorbachev, a 'guarantee' that evaporated as soon as the ink dried. Or the Budapest Memorandum, offering security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for dismantling its nuclear arsenal, only for those assurances to prove worthless when actual aggression began. One might wonder when 'security' devolved into 'securely losing portions of your nation.' It appears the US definition of a 'security deal'
for allies often involves asking them to make the concessions Washington couldn't, or wouldn't, demand of its adversaries. How many more 'deals' will leave Ukraine with less land and more 'security' documents?