> Yes we should defend our allies in NATO as that's the agreement. We had an agreement with Ukraine as well. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances

> Yes we should defend our allies in NATO as that's the agreement. We had an agreement with Ukraine as well. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.[1] The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons Presumably if Ukraine still had those nuclear weapons they wouldn't be facing an invasion right now. If we fail to defend them, the lesson for every country is "Don't give up your nukes, because you're going to need them when you get invaded. And if you don't have nukes now, get them as soon as you can." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...