How can it be a casus belli when russia signed multiple treaties explicitely allowing ukraine free choice of military alliance. The cuba missile crisis was pre

How can it be a casus belli when russia signed multiple treaties explicitely allowing ukraine free choice of military alliance. The cuba missile crisis was pretty bonkers from the US side. We were lucky that there were more level headed people on the sowjet side. Yes, you are right that ukraine acceptance into NATO was not going to happen soon, most likely many decades away. Nobody would allow a country in that has open territorial conflicts with russia. Putin wants to annex belarus and ukraine, all other words out of his mouth are just tactical blabla.