Alexander J. Motyl: Sick of the Ukraine crisis? Then arm Ukraine

A National Guard soldier pets a cat at a checkpoint near Popasne, Luhansk Oblast on Feb. 28, 2016.
Western policymakers who believe the Minsk accords would work if only Ukraine made the requisite constitutional and electoral concessions are missing a key point: that they, and Russia, forced Ukraine to make security its priority by violating the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.