After weeks of mounting tensions, United States officials have warned that a Russian attack on Ukraine could happen 'any day now.' Here's why Americans should care about the conflict.
To understand the United States' vested interest in the conflict, you'd have to go back to the Cold War, Craig Albert, an associate professor of political science and the director of Intelligence and Security Studies at Augusta University, told ABC News.
"Ukraine has attached itself to the West, to NATO," Albert said."They still have military agreements, treaties, economic treaties, business treaties or relationships, even though there's no NATO treaty in place between Ukraine and NATO and the U.S." NATO is"critical to U.S. policy in Europe," and supporting Ukraine for the past 30-plus years"has been integral to U.S. security policy for the European continent as a whole," Matthew Pauly, an associate professor of history at Michigan State University who is an expert on Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, told ABC News.
"Make no mistake, the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power," Biden said this week."An attack against one NATO country is an attack against all of us."The U.S. has sent thousands of additional troops to Central and Eastern Europe in recent weeks, though Biden has made it clear he won't be sending any to Ukraine to fight Russia and has stressed the importance of diplomacy toward achieving de-escalation.
The risk of the conflict escalating beyond Ukraine is"high," Michael"Mick" Patrick Mulroy, ABC News national security and defense analyst, said on ABC News Live this week.Another important dimension to U.S. involvement in the crisis has to do with its support of Ukraine as a democracy, Pauly said. Since 1991, when Ukraine declared its independence, the U.S.
The U.S., along with Western allies, has also voiced support for Ukraine maintaining its sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russian aggression.
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