Would I support new York if they were invaded? That’s a silly question, of course I would, it’s part of the country, as for Ukraine, there not in NATO, they are a money laundering machine, Britain is in NATO.
This is a fine answer. We, in the U.S., defend each other. Job #1 of a country is to defend its people.
As for Great Britain, same answer. We’re in a mutual defense agreement, reinforced by decades of us standing soldier to soldier. Plus, the U.K. meets its NATO obligation of spending of 2 percent on GDP.
As for Ukraine, I agree with you. It’s not the same thing. They’re not in NATO. Our support for them is based on pragmatic considerations. We might do for them what we did for Hungary in 1956, or Czechoslovakia in 1968. Russia’s invasions of those countries and of Ukraine were or are wrong, but we’re under no moral obligation to support them.
Yes, we made some assurances to Ukraine to induce that country to give up nuclear weapons, but Russia hasn’t used nuclear weapons on them.