The rest of the world stood by and watched as this happened live on 24/7 TV. We have to ask why no one came to help?

That is what I meant saying that alliance is good if everyone respect the rules.

On 5 December 1994, the so-called Budapest Memorandum was signed between Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, upon which the States listed above were to respect the independence, sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine, refrain from any manifestation of aggression against Ukraine, including economic pressure (wiki).

And today we all see hot it turns out .....

there were many politicians, ordinary people and royalty in Britain that wanted to appease Hitler and go along with more or less whatever he wanted!

I did not know that. But today, looking at what is going in my own country, I can easily believe that :( Sad to see that people do same mistakes again and again.