Russia's blatant disregard for the 1994 Budapest Memorandum – in which it, the US, and the United Kingdom promised that Ukraine's territorial integrity would be respected if it surrendered its own nuclear weapons – is sending a dangerous message to nuclear states like Iran, North Korea, India, and Pakistan. They know that if Ukraine still had its nukes, it would almost certainly still have Crimea.
西方列强厌恶打仗本身也是有风险的。俄罗斯公然无视1994年布达佩斯备忘录——当时美英等国承诺如果乌克兰交出核武器其领土完整会得到尊重——向伊朗、朝鲜、印度和巴基斯坦等国传递了危险的信号。他们知道如果乌克兰还有核武器，几乎可以肯定克里米亚仍将在它手中。