Dot.@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 11 hours agoWhy Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine.theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down17
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-linkWhy Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine.theconversation.comDot.@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareMelchior@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-28 hours agoNo! Ukraine had nukes until 1994 and when Ukraine gave them up in the Budapest Memorandum not a single one of the countries agreed to protect Ukraine. Unless by protection you mean calling the UN security council, which both the US and UK did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum#The_Budapest_Memoranda EDIT: Also the EU is not the US, UK or Russia.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 hours agoOh no 2 years off. As I said: And you know what, even without that, Europe should, you know, fight fascism at its doorstep.
No! Ukraine had nukes until 1994 and when Ukraine gave them up in the Budapest Memorandum not a single one of the countries agreed to protect Ukraine. Unless by protection you mean calling the UN security council, which both the US and UK did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum#The_Budapest_Memoranda
EDIT: Also the EU is not the US, UK or Russia.
Oh no 2 years off.
As I said: