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{{See also|American foreign policy}}

{{See also|American foreign policy}}

Prior to [[NATO expansion]] beginning in the 1990s, [[John Quincy Adams]] laid out the specifics of American [[foreign policy]], saying America does not go "abroad in search of monsters to destroy."<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/she-goes-not-abroad-in-search-of-monsters-to-destroy/</ref> if the US had stayed neutral in the [[Ukraine war]] and refrained from sending any [[Ukraine]] [[weapon]]s, the war would have ended in April 2022 with a full Russian withdrawal under the terms of the [[Istanbul 1.0|Istanbul Agreement]]. This peace deal was initialed by representatives of Russia and Ukraine on March 29, 2022, and was scheduled to be signed on April 9, 2022, in Istanbul by Putin and Zelensky before [[Joe Biden]] and UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] persuaded Zelensky not to sign it and continue the war indefinitely with disastrous results for Ukraine.

Prior to [[NATO expansion]] beginning in the 1990s, [[John Quincy Adams]] laid out the specifics of American [[foreign policy]], saying America does not go "abroad in search of monsters to destroy."<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/she-goes-not-abroad-in-search-of-monsters-to-destroy/</ref> If the U.S. had stayed neutral in the [[Ukraine war]] and refrained from sending [[Ukraine]] any [[weapon]]s, the war would have ended in April 2022 with a full Russian withdrawal under the terms of the [[Istanbul 1.0|Istanbul Agreement]]. This peace deal was initialed by representatives of Russia and Ukraine on March 29, 2022, and was scheduled to be signed on April 9, 2022, in Istanbul by Putin and Zelensky before [[Joe Biden]] and UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] persuaded Zelensky not to sign it and continue the war indefinitely with disastrous results for Ukraine.

The charge that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] cannot be relied upon to honor its commitments has become a recurring theme in [[Russian]] [[diplomacy]] and increasingly resonates beyond [[Moscow]]. Over the past two decades, the United States has withdrawn from a remarkable number of [[international]] agreements, raising questions about American credibility, the future of [[multilateral]] cooperation, and whether the United States can be treated as a reliable partner on the international stage.

The charge that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] cannot be relied upon to honor its commitments has become a recurring theme in [[Russian]] [[diplomacy]] and increasingly resonates beyond [[Moscow]]. Over the past two decades, the United States has withdrawn from a remarkable number of [[international]] agreements, raising questions about American credibility, the future of [[multilateral]] cooperation, and whether the United States can be treated as a reliable partner on the international stage.