This is a speech by Marco Rubio that is spot on. Too bad he reversed his stance and is all for backing out of our agreement to protect them as well.

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Marco Rubio (R)

When the Soviet Union fell in the early 1990s, Ukraine was left with the worlds third largest stockpile of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons on the planet. But they signed this agreement with the US, UK and Russia. This basically said that, if you give up your nuclear weapons, we, these three countries that signed this, will provide you with this, will provide for your defense and assure you of your defense. And so the Ukraine did that. They gave up these weapons. Well now, this was signed in 1994. Twenty years later, one of the three countries that signed that signed that agreement hasn’t just not provided for their defense. They actually invaded them. And I want to make a point on this for a second. Think about if you are one of these countries around the world right now that feels threatened by your neighbors. And the US and the rest of the world is going to you and saying, listen, don’t develop nuclear weapons. Don’t develop nuclear weapons, South Korea. Don’t develop nuclear weapons Japan. Don’t develop nuclear weapons Saudi Arabia. We will protect you. We will watch out for you. What kind of lesson do you think this instance sends to them? I think the message this is sending to many nations around the world is, perhaps we can no longer count on the security promises made by the free world. Perhaps we need to start looking out for ourselves. And that’s why the Ukrainian situation is so much more important than simply what is happening in Europe. This has implications around the world.