>>17149912Security guarantees range on a number of things. Usually a pledge of defence if they are attacked again, or the deployment of peacekeeping troops along borders.
If Russia had no intention of attacking Ukraine again, these would be easy things to agree to as they don't negatively impact them in any way.
>>17149915Ukrainian Constitution does not allow elections during war. Many countries do this. No war, elections return.
>>17149920Why do you like looking like fools? If you don't care about having anyone's respect, why are your egos so fragile that any imagined sign of disrespect sends you into a retard rage?
>>17149929>because the west has antagonized himStopped reading, the West was doing it's absolute best to form economic ties with Russia, it was building pipelines, ignoring chemical weapons attacks on its streets, etc.
A defensive pact is not provocation unless you plan to attack. Their invasion has simply shown why NATO was needed, because Russia will attack its neighbours if it has a chance. That is why, since the war, NATO has expanded and why military funding is increasing across the continent and why Europe, that was previously building economic ties with Russia now has many, many sanctions instead.
Putin did, indeed attack "now" because of NATO, because otherwise it simply would have waited until later. The attack was always coming, because that's all Russia knows, apparently.
>>17149933>USA spends money to exert power>USA confused when it's spending money to exert powerEurope isn't begging for money, it took money because the US was willing to invest it because it gave them power in return, the US is now trying to rescind that power but that's going to fuck up a lot of systems that people had in place because of that investment.
