(September 28, 2022 at 5:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(September 28, 2022 at 5:16 pm)Helios Wrote: Help Ukraine defend itself is not a waste
Help Yemen defend itself against Saudi Arabia should also not be a waste.
Same for Palestine against Israel, right?
Not to mention countless civil wars between factions within "countries" spread all over the world, but seemingly concentrated in Africa and South America.
The thing is... what is the US government's interest in helping Ukraine, while not helping the others?
Could it have something to do with the interest that Russia has in Ukraine, too?
It’s partly that, but mostly because the Budapest Memorandum is considered - by people who study this sort of thing - to be treaty-equivalent.
Boru
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