Only a fraction of the countries that have ever existed would have been worth dying for. Ukraine isn’t one of them.
At this point, what difference does it matter?
At this point, what difference does it matter?
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Nevertheless, three years after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia signed an agreement with Ukraine known as The Budapst Memorandum on Security Assurances. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.
According to this agreement, Ukraine's security and soveriegnty were to be guaranteed if Ukraine gave up her nuclear weapons. Until Ukraine gave up the Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on its soil, it had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum