So you do want us to surrender to nuclear blackmail to a country that threatens to use it if their invasions are hindered, which means the Western nations are forever under the control of Red China and Russia, and in time, to all the other countries that build up a nuke arsenal.
A simple yes would have been a quicker answer.
Again-—what strategic value is the Ukraine to the USA? NONE. I’m waiting??????????????????????????????????????
If you are talking Poland, Germany members of NATO totally different scenario they are members of NATO and we are treaty obligated to defend them.
You lose nuclear deterrence when your enemy no longer believes you will actually use them. After watching our bumbling bureaucrats woke we still call military generals and admirals and that utter buffoon who is the CNC do you think our enemies believe we will use them? We did this to ourselves.