We had diplomacy: it produced Helsinki, Budapest memorandums, Ukraine Russia border treaty, and NATO Russia founding act. All of these reaffirmed the security o

We had diplomacy: it produced Helsinki, Budapest memorandums, Ukraine Russia border treaty, and NATO Russia founding act. All of these reaffirmed the security of borders, right of countries to pick their alliances, and the independence of Ukraine. Russia just doesn't like what it signed up for.