Originally Posted by
NutLoose
We all seem to be forgetting one major fact, the U.K. and the USA agreed to protect the Ukraine... all of it, not a little here and a little there, but all of it in an agreement with the Ukraine for disarming their nuclear weapons, which at the time was the worlds third largest stockpile. We are obligated, like it or not.
That is a valid point, although I wonder how it applies in the case of a civil war. Iirc, these nukes, property of the Soviet Union, were transferred to Russia.