CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell March 9, 2022 19:47:00
To the ears of american officials, if you say guarantee, our nato allies have a u.s. guarantee. if they're invaded, they have an expectation that the 82nd airborne will come to their aid. when we were negotiating the budapest memorandum, we told the ukrainians we have to call it security assurances, not guarantee, but neither the george h.w. bush administration or the clinton administration were prepared to make a military commitment to ukraine's defense. now, what we did say is if there's a russian violation, we will take an interest, we will do things, but we did say american military forces...
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