@BobMurphyEcon On one hand, “reassurances”. On the other, TREATIES. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The 1997 Friendship Treaty, where Ukraine’s borders were recognized. Also, you have open calls for genocide. Also, you have Russians as early as the early 90s saying Ukraine is temporary.

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@BobMurphyEcon On one hand, “reassurances”. On the other, TREATIES. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The 1997 Friendship Treaty, where Ukraine’s borders were recognized. Also, you have open calls for genocide. Also, you have Russians as early as the early 90s saying Ukraine is temporary.