We signed that Budapest Agreement, “assuring” their borders and sovereignty.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts
Now we’re selling them down the river as if it was never binding in the first place.
No one should ever trust the US.
That’s not quite fair. There was discussion right at the time that it was signed as to whether it imposed an obligation on the U.S. and U.K. to intervene militarily if Ukraine was attacked, and we made it clear way back then that we were not agreeing to that. It was essentially an agreement that none of the signatories would themselves violate that territorial integrity. Nor would such a promise have been binding even if we had made it given that it wasn’t a treaty that went through the Senate.