as for the US nato ukraine thing.
although it means the US/UK cant jump in and fight along side ukraine against russia.(US on the offensive: no)
the UK/US can defend and 'peace keep' with ukraine against russia under the UN.(US on the defense: yes)
basically defense instead of offense.
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That's not the way Russians will look at it since they were not trying to invade Ukraine, the only reason why they rally thier war machines on the borders of Russian and Ukraine is that US warships are in the Crimea sea which Ukraine has shorelines stretching to Russia's shoreline.

All of them will have to rally each other because it's a threat but US seem to have tried expanding and giving a deal to Ukraine to be part of NATO for arms. When warships are closer to the shorelines of any country, they will surely rally thier tanks too. But sure the liberal media reported that Russian wants to invade Ukraine.