I don't think that's going to happen with Secretary Rubio or with Mike Waltz, our National Security Adviser. Warren, are we obligated under agreements to protect Ukraine from Russia aggression? I don't think there's a formal obligation [to protect Ukraine from Russian aggression]. I think people do recognize there's a sort of moral obligation there because the United States participated in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and certainly European allies that were concerned about nuclear weapons being left in Ukraine at the end of the Cold war. (06:20–06:36)
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Asserts that the U.S. does not have a formal obligation to defend Ukraine.
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