[mehphp]

He’s insisting on something that the U.S. already agreed to…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

[rayiner]

From my reading, that says we agreed not to invade Ukraine, not that we agreed to put american boots on the ground to defend Ukraine.

[maxerickson]

Does "nuclear weapons" attach to the first half of the or in section 4? Seems they wrote it poorly...

"victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used"

You are also engaged in some sophistry, where you are acting as if the hypothetical obligation you are discussing is the only possible obligation. Selling aging weapons stock is pretty clearly assistance, and it isn't exactly boots on the ground.