Lets be clear...the real purpose of the Budapest memorandum was to keep nuclear weapons off the black market, as the Ukrainian kleptocrats were selling everything that wasn't nailed down to the highest bidder.
Beyond that, the West has spent billions interfering in the domestic politics of Ukraine in direct violation of the memorandum...so stop pretending the West has 'clean hands' when it comes to the Bucharest Memrandum which is NOT a treaty and does NOT obligate the United State to defend Ukraine.
Incorrect.
To be very clear:
The only place the Bucharest Memmorandum is not considered a treaty by some is the U.S. because it was not submitted to the Senate for approval.
So in your mind, the United States completed nearly 16,000 international agreements between 1946 and 1999, with only 912 of those agreements submitted to the Senate.. so should ALL the other nations consider them “non-binding” as well?
ONCE AGAIN, since the Franklin Roosevelt presidency, only 6% of international accords have been completed as Article II treaties. Most of these executive agreements consist of congressional-executive agreements.
Ukraine had control of over the world’s third-largest stockpile of nukes: bigger than China, Britain and France combined.
Russia, the UK, the US, and Ukraine concluded two years of negotiations with agreement that the signatories would among other things:
“respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”
“refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine”
However, Ukraine’s sovereignty HAS been compromised despite security assurances and despite Kiev giving up nuclear stockpiles. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, said recently: “countries that have nuclear weapons won’t want to give them up, while countries that don’t have them may want to acquire them because that will be the only way to protect their territorial integrity!”
So, much for Obama’s international policy!