I suggest we owe Ukraine, when we presume without authorization to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf, the duty of a faithful fiduciary. We owe Ukraine the duty to refrain from self-dealing, the duty to refrain from extorting mineral rights.
We owe a duty to refrain from damaging Ukraine's standing in the family of nations by humiliating its President. We owe the duty to refrain from lying and asserting that Ukraine and its president "started" the war. We owe the duty not to exaggerate the extent of our monetary contributions.
When we assumed the role to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf, we owed Ukraine the basic duty not to sell them out before the negotiations had even begun by acceding to Putin's every demand.
We owe Ukraine the duty to refrain from blaming them alone for the very war we encouraged them to fight.
We owe Ukraine the duty to acknowledge and respect the very sovereignty we urged and aided them to fight for.
We owe them the duty to avoid hypocrisy but to honestly appraise our own shameful role.
