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{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}

{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}

[[File:Photo 2024-12-05 16-57-51.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German puppet Chancellor [[Olaf Scholz]] with Ukrainian [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]. Circled in orange: the double-headed eagles of the [[Russian Empire]].]]

[[File:Photo 2024-12-05 16-57-51.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German puppet Chancellor [[Olaf Scholz]] with Ukrainian [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]. Circled in orange: the double-headed eagles of the [[Russian Empire]].]]

A 2019 Rand Corporation paper entitled ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground'' knowingly imperiled Ukraine as a nation and its people, to extend Russia in the hopes of precipitating a sociopolitical or economic collapse, or both, with the full understanding Ukraine itself would lose any such conflict. The policy of militarizing Ukraine to provoke a Russian intervention was anticipated, according to the report, "to produce disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows as well as a disadvantageous peace."<ref>Dobbins, James, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, and Brent Williams, ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.'' Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html. [p. 100]</ref>

A 2019 [[Rand Corporation]] paper entitled ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground'' knowingly imperiled Ukraine as a nation and its people, to extend Russia in the hopes of precipitating a sociopolitical or economic collapse, or both, with the full understanding Ukraine itself would lose any such conflict. The policy of militarizing Ukraine to provoke a Russian intervention was anticipated, according to the report, "to produce disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows as well as a disadvantageous peace."<ref>Dobbins, James, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, and Brent Williams, ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.'' Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html. [p. 100]</ref>

In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war.<ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees], Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization], Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/woOvb US, NATO rule out halt to expansion, reject Russian demands]. By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK, ''Associated Press'', January 7, 2022.</ref> The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed.  The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>

In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war.<ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees], Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization], Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/woOvb US, NATO rule out halt to expansion, reject Russian demands]. By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK, ''Associated Press'', January 7, 2022.</ref> The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed.  The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>