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Anyone who claims NATO expansion led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a manifestly unserious person. The documents you refer to do NOT in fact contain any promise that there would be no expansion of NATO. Whether Russia "accepts" it or not, the fact is it's none of their business whether Ukraine decides to join NATO.

If there had been no NATO expansion, Russia would've also invaded the Baltic states and possibly even Poland, instead of just Ukraine. Or at the very least, Russia would've used the THREAT of invasion to try to force those nations back into their "sphere of influence", demanding that they join the Collective Security Treaty Organization and operate as Russian vassal states.

There was nothing reasonable about any of Russia's demands. And in fact the agreement you suggest should've happened WOULD have been exactly Neville Chamberlain-style appeasement. You claim that such a deal wouldn't involve Ukraine "losing territory via invasion", but that's exactly what it would've done because it would've legitimized Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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when Trump pulled out of the agreement he explained he had evidence to show russia wasn't keep their end, but never shared it..he said he wanted to renegotiate

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