[fjfaase]

Actually the USA does have a defense pact with the Ukraine. Ukraine gave up its nuclear bomb and destroyed its strategic bombers with the promise that it would be defended by the USA and Russia. Now that Russia stept out of that deal, it does not mean that the USA no longer has the moral obligation of its part of the deal.

[fjfaase]

I stand corrected, the Budapest memorandum is not a defense pact. The Ukraine government acted in good faith that they would not be invaded. Now that it has indeed be invaded by one of the countries signing the memorandum, it does give the other parties a moral obligation to step in. The USA is now showing to be an unreliable party and I think that this weakens the position of the USA in the world.

[alephxyz]

> Actually the USA does have a defense pact with the Ukraine.

The Budapest memorandum is not a defense pact. The only obligation the US has is to e escalate to the UN security council if Ukraine gets nuked.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...

[aembleton]

> the promise that it would be defended by the USA and Russia

The promise[1] was to not invade it, it was not to provide defence.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum