Victor Pinchuk is founder of the Yalta European Strategy think tank. He says the presence of Western troops in Ukraine would constitute a source of uncertainty.
He believes that Russia will never achieve its goals because the Ukrainians will never give up. Pinchesuk: Europe must mobilize to compensate for the shortcomings of the United States, those of today and perhaps those of tomorrow. The signatories of the Budapest Memorandum did not immediately honor their security commitments, but their subsequent actions prove that they did not betray Ukraine.