The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, visited Moscow and Kyiv this week to engage diplomacy to stave off a Russian invasion of Ukraine. During his travels Scholz assured the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that Ukraine would not, in the near term, join Nato. For Putin, however, this was not enough.
Yet, what if Nato did agree to never admit Ukraine as a member? If there was a way to make such an assurance, would that end the crisis between Russia and Ukraine?
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