[Widget Jr]

Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 to give its nuclear weapons back to Russia in exchange for security guarantees. They were all out of the country by 1996. We now see what those kind of Russian promises are worth, as well as later promises by the U.S. and NATO.

[Kevmo]

Hence, like I said in post #75

So then the Budapest Agreement is void. And the Ukes can go ahead and build their own nukes and blow the Rukes to hell because this is, after all, an existential war for them. We did it when we were in an existential war, so who are we to scold them for doing the same thing, especially after we sold them down the river on that very agreement?

[mac_truck]

Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 to give its nuclear weapons back to Russia in exchange for security guarantees.

They were Soviet nukes and Ukraine didn't have the codes to use them. The fear was they'd be sold to the highest bidder by the corrupt Ukraine military and turned into dirty bombs.

The US violated the Budapest Agreement many times by interfering in the domestic politics of Ukraine, none more so than when it engineered the overthrow of a democratically elected government in 2014.

Finally, the Budapest agreement was NOT a treaty ratified by Congress and has no binding authority for a US military response.