In an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt earlier this month, Biden acknowledged the risk of further aggression. has sent thousands of additional troops to Central and Eastern Europe in recent weeks, though Biden made it clear he won't be sending any to Ukraine to fight Russia and had stressed the importance of diplomacy toward achieving de-escalation.
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"As I made crystal clear, the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power." Preventing 'world war' "Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine but to defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies in the East," Biden said during an address Thursday. force capabilities to deploy to Germany as part of NATO's response force - including the 8,500 troops put on "heightened alert" last month. On Thursday, Biden announced he was authorizing additional U.S. had sent in troops amid the Russian aggression to support NATO's eastern flank. "The United States obviously views it as its duty to oblige by the responsibilities of NATO membership to hold the line on the eastern front of NATO."
"There's no doubt that the most eastern-facing NATO member states are quite rightly anxious about Russia's actions in Ukraine," Pauly said. is seeking to maintain the balance of power in Europe and "protect Ukraine as a buffer against Russian-perceived aggression in Europe itself," Albert said, noting that Ukraine is "strategically important" for Russia, the U.S. interests is considered " significant," by the Council on Foreign Relations, which said in part that the conflict "risks further deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations and greater escalation if Russia expands its presence in Ukraine or into NATO countries."Īs Russia tries to "reassert itself into the great power game," the U.S. The potential impact of the Ukraine conflict on U.S. The NATO members bordering Russia also present a concern to U.S. and Russia in 1994, under which Ukraine would turn over its nuclear weapons stockpile in exchange for security assurances against threats to its territorial integrity and sovereignty, including seeking "immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine." Russia would later flout that agreement when it seized Crimea in 2014. One previous agreement is the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, reached between the U.S. "They still have military agreements, treaties, economic treaties, business treaties or relationships, even though there's no NATO treaty in place between Ukraine and NATO and the U.S."
"Ukraine has attached itself to the West, to NATO," Albert said. Putin has demanded this not happen, as he seeks to limit NATO along Russia's border.
Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that is bordered by Russia on the east, is not a NATO member, though in 2008 the alliance opened the door to membership. In the years since, NATO has expanded several times, including adding three former Soviet republics. helped form the security alliance NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in 1949. To counter Soviet aggression in Europe, the U.S. To understand the United States' vested interest in the conflict, you'd have to go back to the Cold War, Craig Albert, an associate professor of political science and the director of Intelligence and Security Studies at Augusta University, told ABC News. "If we do not stand for freedom where it is at risk today, we'll surely pay a steeper price tomorrow." NATO ties "It's about standing for what we believe in, for the future that we want for our world, for liberty, the right of countless countries to choose their own destiny, and the right of people to determine their own futures, or the principle that a country can't change its neighbor's borders by force," Biden said. involvement is necessary, he said, because "this is about more than just Russia and Ukraine."
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