I am not in disagreement with recent history nor am I ignorant of 20th century history between the two countries and I also understand the six or seven hundred years before that.
It is all germaine, Americans tend to not recognize anything past our own historical timeline. The history of Europe is entanglements fraught with conflicts, power plays, protectorates, vassal states, religious wars, treaties, charters. That’s just on the continent.
To this day, in the British Isles there remains hatred amongst the peoples that has lasted for a thousand years, people don’t tend to forget these things. We in America haven’t experienced anything nearly as historical. Nor as bloody.
Still waters and malevolence run deep. And it seems very difficult for people over here to even begin to understand that it is a component of the mind and make up of European culture. When tempers flare this ancient history rears its ugly head.
Sure, I'm only saying there's no need to refer back to ancient history when more recent history explains things well enough, specifically the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which guaranteed Ukraine's security in exchange for giving up Ukraine's nuclear weapons.
The US, UK and Russia all promised to defend Ukraine and now Russia has invaded.
Is America's written commitment worth the paper it's printed on?