'Those who argue against providing military assistance to Ukraine “frequently forget,” Kirillova says, that they are in fact “acknowledging ‘the right of the strong’ to violate the territorial integrity of any weaker states by those which have important economic or political significance for the West or simply are more effective in using blackmail.'<blockquote>'On
Novy Region 2 today, Kseniya Kirillova says that while the concerns about the risks involved are understandable, they are misplaced because they ignore the fact that the consequences of not assisting Ukraine will be far worse than any of those from doing so.
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She notes that Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons on its territory in exchange for a guarantee of security as offered in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum signed not only by Ukraine but also by Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
That agreement in turn is part of the more general security system in Europe, a system “build on guarantees.” But “if such guarantees are barbarously violated, and Europe and the US do nothing to defend them, then we will get the destruction of the entire existing world order” and enter into a Hobbesian world in which each will look to its own defense.
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Those who argue against providing military assistance to Ukraine “frequently forget,” Kirillova says, that they are in fact “acknowledging ‘the right of the strong’ to violate the territorial integrity of any weaker states by those which have important economic or political significance for the West or simply are more effective in using blackmail.
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..Helping Ukraine would slow and possibly stop “such a development of events and not accelerate it as some European leaders fear.” Had the West taken a tougher line last year, it would have required less of an effort than it will now.
But “it is not too late to correct the situation even now.” And as the risks of doing nothing are so much greater than those of taking action, Kirillova concludes, “let us hope that despite all the warnings of the German side, the United States will provide the victim of aggression with the help it is asking for” lest the aggressor and potential victims decide that aggression works.'
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Helping Ukraine Prevents Rather Than Promotes Disaster, February 4, 2015</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
John McCain ..on the situation in Ukraine'..the Putin Doctrine..' - Timothy Garton Ashjuly'People who are driven by revanchism must experience its consequences.' - Skobov'..[Putin] has created a military-industrial-political-criminal complex..'([Russia has] become a threat to the world..) - 'Hodges said neighbors like the Baltic states and Georgia appear to be safe for now, but possibly not for long.'</blockquote>