(NYTIMES) - At the heart of the current crisis between Washington and Moscow is this: President Vladimir Putin has massed troops on Russia's border with Ukraine and implied that he may invade unless he receives a guarantee that Ukraine will never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
The Biden administration rejects that demand out of hand. Powerful nations, it insists, cannot demand that their neighbours fall under their "spheres of influence".
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