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The US and the UK asked Ukraine to surrender its nuclear arsenal to Russia, pledging they would protect Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

Now, when it's time to honor that pledge, the US and the UK should do so. And I think they are and that they will, to some extent.

I strongly doubt the US really wants Germany, France and other NATO members to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense (in which case they would have combined military spending close to rivalling the US' 3.3 percent of GDP because their combined GDP is higher and because Canadian/Turkish/European public spending traditionally goes further). The US has a clear interest in having a military far superior to the next many powers combined. The US might like Europeans to spend a little more, but not anywhere close to 2 percent.