With the Budapest Memorandum, the UK agreed to > Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine if they "should

With the Budapest Memorandum, the UK agreed to > Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". Which it did. While the British assurance to Poland was: > ...in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence, and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power. That isn't remotely the same language. The West is refusing to escalate the conflict which might trigger a world war. It isn't a world war yet and there is no appetite in the West for one.