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The United States has not given in to any of Vladimir Putin's demands to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This was stated by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, at a press conference in Washington held minutes after the ambassador of that country in Moscow, John Sullivan, delivered Washington's official response to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Russian demands.

"There is no change. There has never been any change,"

said Blinken. The Secretary of State has reaffirmed the United States' commitment to "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine", two elements that Vladimir Putin does not accept. Blinken has also defended the decision of the United States not to make its response to Moscow public, in order to leave room for diplomacy and not leave Putin in a dead end, something that could exacerbate the aggressiveness of the Russian president.

What the United States has indeed reaffirmed is its commitment to negotiate with Russia

a series of measures that reinforce international stability and peace, including limits on military maneuvers in Ukraine and the deployment of weapons and military units in that country, as well as as a new START strategic nuclear arms reduction agreement.

It is taken for granted in Washington that, unless the West carries out a new Munich, in reference to the concessions made by France and Germany to Adolf Hitler's Germany in 1938, when they allowed Berlin to annex Czechoslovakia, Russia will carry out an attack military against Ukraine.

Blinken took advantage of his press conference to ask Americans in Ukraine to leave the country.

The main Russian demand is that NATO undertakes never to admit Ukraine into its fold,

in what constitutes a violation of that country's sovereignty, since by definition no country can impose its military alliances on another.

Putin's demand would also mean that NATO takes orders from Moscow.

," Blinken stressed.

NATO declared its intention to admit Ukraine to its membership in 2008. It was a compromise solution between those who advocated entry - starting with Ukraine itself - and those who feared that the decision would trigger a Russian reaction due to Vladimir Putin's longing for the old soviet empire

, when Russia invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea and creating a ghostly independent republic in the country's east.

Since then Ukraine is technically at war with Russia

.

And, for the same reason, NATO is not going to admit that country, since that could mean the alliance's entry into an armed conflict with the second nuclear power in the world.

It is exactly the same strategy that Putin used in 2008, when another former Soviet republic, Georgia, also got the promise of future admission to NATO.

Just a few months after the engagement, Russia invaded Georgia.

Since then, it occupies part of its territory.

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