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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 16342592" data-attributes="member: 218596">Ukraine invation by Russia is like India invading North East Sri Lanka. The US and Britain Have a Treaty with Ukraine Pledging to Come to Their Aid if Their Territorial Integrity is ViolatedIt was signed by Clinton and John Major in 1994.  The reason we  signed this treaty was to give the Ukraine a guarantee that we wouldn't  let Russia invade them -- and we had to do that because we were asking  them to give up their nuclear weapons. They did give up their nukes.  The one thing that could have guaranteed  their freedom from Russia.  And we in turn promised to help protect  them. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-British-Ambassador-Moscow-warns-Russia-invaded-Ukraine-difficult-avoid-going-war.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-British-Ambassador-Moscow-warns-Russia-invaded-Ukraine-difficult-avoid-going-war.html" target="_blank"></a> It is called the "Budapest  Memorandum," and I don't know if it was ever submitted to Congress. The U.S. and Britain have both made crisis phone calls to  President Putin to urge him not to intervene in Ukraine's Crimea, with  the White House warning him it would be a 'grave mistake'. NATO also asked Russia not to take action that could escalate tension.  However Moscow responded by telling the organization to 'refrain' from  provocative statements on Ukraine and respect its 'non-bloc' status.Sir Tony Brenton, who served as British Ambassador from 2004 to 2008,  said that war could be an option 'if we do conclude the [Budapest]  Memorandum is legally binding.'It promises to protect Ukraine's borders, in return for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons.Today Kiev has demanded the agreement is activated after insisting their borders had been violated.In response Mr Brenton said in a BBC radio interview: 'If indeed this is  a Russian invasion of Crimea and if we do conclude the [Budapest]  Memorandum is legally binding then it's very difficult to avoid the  conclusion that we're going to go to war with Russia'.Ukraine accused Russia of a 'military invasion and occupation', saying  Russian troops have taken up positions around a coast guard base and two  airports on its strategic Crimea peninsula.  </blockquote>

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