They gave up those nukes with the promise we would protect them.
That trick of ours won’t work again.
That trick of ours won’t work again.
I don't see that in the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
What I do see is a promise made by both the US and Russia to "[r]efrain from the threat or the use of force against [...] Ukraine." So Russia definitely broke the promise, and I don't see where the US broke it.
>Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
I don't know exactly what "Seek immediate Security Council action" means. What if the US seeks it and doesn't find it? Is that in compliance with the memorandum?
#2 Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
Both violated in the Krimean annexion 2014. Since Russia could easily violate this treaty, they could easily invade Ukraine now. And they got no weapons from signatories, only a few from the Baltics.
Treaties with these signatories are not worth the paper, otherwise Ukraine would have kept the nukes, and would have somehow got the codes also eventually.
Going to end up looking like a fucking 9000 IQ play by Russia here, but hopefully the world proves me wrong.
"Biden only wants to intervene because of Hunters business dealings!"