The Budapest Memorandum never guaranteed intervention
***Why do weak-kneed obambam worshipping pantywaist appeasers need a guarantee? Because they are weak kneed, etc. The agreement assures sovereignty. Invading a country is an obvious violation of such an agreement. There’s a gigantic duhh factor to all of this.
After we went back on our NATO expansion insurances and populated Ukraine with bioweapons labs all along Russia’s border, Russia was more patient and deliberate in its actions than we would have been.