Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from America. It’s time for America to honor its word.
shareI do NOT remember such promises being made. Or even discussed.
Anyone that made such a promise without checking in with the American people was an asshole.
That’s Bill Clinton for you.
In exchange for Ukraine's renouncement of nuclear weapons, Russia, the USA and Great Britain guaranteed the Ukraine's independence and borders (Budapest Memorandum 1994).
And if anything, then the NATO and not the USA should be in the Ukraine.
In both cases it would mean WWIII.
There's a reason the US govt, corrupt and stupid as it is, will not do that (at least, not the draft). It would be Vietnam all over again. A lot of people see this "war" for what it is, a smokescreen for corruption, as well as a major distraction tactic so that the American public [supposedly] won't question the bioweapons labs, the money laundering, or the other shit going on overseas. Trouble is, the internet has made it too easy for them to find out what the govt. doesn't want them to know, and frankly, this war was completely unnecessary.
Only reason the US govt. got away with the Afghanistan/Iraq wars was through the CIA setting up the towers to be knocked down, and good propaganda. They don't have any good reason to send troops overseas to the quagmire in eastern Europe.
And for the record, we actually already have American boots on the ground in the Ukraine, the govt. simply didn't tell anyone, just like what happened in Libya during Obama's tenure.
Nobody wants to fight nor die for this regime.
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Under the agreement the Russian Federation provided security assurances to Ukraine in the form of promising to neither attack nor threaten attack them. The other signatories (the United States, United Kingdom and France) pledged non-military support to Ukraine in exchange for its adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The memorandum bundled together a set of assurances that Ukraine had already held from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) Final Act, the United Nations Charter and the Non-Proliferation Treaty but the Ukrainian government found it valuable to have these assurances in a Ukraine-specific document.
The Budapest Memorandum was negotiated at political level, but it is not entirely clear whether the instrument is devoid entirely of legal provisions. It refers to assurances, but unlike guarantees, it does not impose a legal obligation of military assistance on its parties. According to Stephen MacFarlane, a professor of international relations, "It gives signatories justification if they take action, but it does not force anyone to act in Ukraine." In the US, neither the George H. W. Bush administration nor the Clinton administration was prepared to give a military commitment to Ukraine, and they did not believe the US Senate would ratify an international treaty and so the memorandum was adopted in more limited terms.