because there are no examples

at is independent of Washington. Just as Washington interpreted treaty commitments to Pakistan flexibly in the 1960s, the US has done similarly with NATO and Ukraine. Although Kyiv is not a member of NATO, it received generous military support for three years until Trump decided to threaten its dilution and reinterpret the conditions of support to NATO. Washington’s military support for a non-treaty partner such as Ukraine is significant and remarkable because there are no examples of the US extending such assistance to any non-treaty partner. While the progress of the war is grindingly slow for Russia, there are absolutely no tangible battlefield gains evident for Kyiv. As we have seen with our historical example, while neutral India suffered a military aid cut-off from the US in the mid-1960s, so did Pakistan. In the same war, Beijing was also deterred with a military สล็อต