> That is why the focus now is on security guarantees, which the U.S. is refusing so far. This seems obvious to me, but is apparently not obvious to many here.

> That is why the focus now is on security guarantees, which the U.S. is refusing so far. This seems obvious to me, but is apparently not obvious to many here.... America (no country really) can guarantee Ukrainian security without risking WWIII, and frankly there's no reason to. At the end of the day, from a non-Ukrainian standpoint, it doesn't really matter who administers the land that today is Ukraine.