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To: carranza2 who wrote (775806)1/17/2023 2:20:25 PM
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You can interpret the situation is that Macron was acting in bad faith, but if so that would be a reason for Russia to be mad at France, not invade Ukraine. And Russia was clearly acting in bad faith from an even earlier point in the history of the building conflict.

The Minsk agreements, in addition to having very different interpretations esp. on timing (who does what first), were themselves a product of Russian aggression which was a violation of a previous agreement by Russia (Budapest Memorandum).
The 2015 deal also called for Ukraine to be neutral
Mink 2? No it didn't. The closest it comes to that is "Pullout of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, and also mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine". Pullout doesn't mean "there shall never be any foreign military in Ukraine; but even if it did -

1 - NATO membership is possible without foreign bases and non-local forces.
2 - Russia would have violated it by its invasion.

But NATO membership is pretty irrelevant to the invasion almost a year ago anyway, since there had been no movement towards NATO membership, not was there any prospect of Ukrainian membership except perhaps in the very long term (and only in the sense that everything can change in the long run).
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