But then the question is: why violate this verbal pledge to not expand NATO.

 

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The two US officials settled on technocrat Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yats is the guy, Nuland decreed. The only outstanding matter was securing the blessing of the then-Vice President, Joe Biden and his then-senior advisor, Jake Sullivan, “for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick.”

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