I’m just pointing out what the Budapest Memorandum says and doesn’t say, and provided a link to the memo. Russia violated the agreement, not the US. Clearly, Putin is the bad guy here. He violated his agreement, invaded a sovereign nation, is murdering their people and destroying their cities, and will likely steal their resources and leave behind a humanitarian disaster if he isn’t stopped. There are moral and geopolitical arguments to be made for defending Ukraine against Russia, and who should/shouldn’t do it.
You acknowledge that he violated the agreement.
Ireland signed that agreement, and would be well within their rights to send Irish soldiers to push back Russian soldiers to the borders in that agreement.
No big deal.
Britain signed it also. No big deal for them, right? But... THEY have nukes. So now allofasudden it’s a risking situation of nukes versus nukes. Not so big a deal because it’s just a bunch of idiot Europeans.
WE ALSO signed the agreement. But pantywaist appeasers allofasudden wanna start finding ways that we aren’t morally obligated to “respect the borders”.
We can easily say “Russia claims to have not violated the agreement by a ‘special military exercise’, so that’s what WE are doing, our own ‘special military exercise’ that really DOES respect those borders.”
This is an existential war for the Ukes. They HONORED that agreement which the Rukes have violated twice. So they would be well within their rights to pursue nukes, just like we did when we were in our existential war. Who are we to scold them for doing it, especially since we are betraying them?
Keeping this thing CONVENTIONAL rather than pushing the Ukes into a Nuke Corner is the right thing to do.