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To: Carry_Okie

“Your point is?”

With his aggression, Putin has violated two signed agreement regarding Ukraine.

Putin is a lying, evil, corrupt dictator intent on reestablishing the Soviet Empire.


18 posted on 08/18/2025 8:39:33 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: TexasGator
Putin has violated two signed agreement regarding Ukraine.

This has been a multi-party debacle. From Wikipedia:

The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises four substantially identical political agreements signed at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The four memoranda were originally signed by four nuclear powers: Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.[1] France and China gave individual assurances in separate documents.[2]

The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Congress Center [de; hu] with U.S. Ambassador Donald M. Blinken (now that's interesting) amongst others in attendance,[3] prohibited Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations". As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.[4][5]

Russia violated the Budapest memorandum in 2014 with its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea[6][7] and in 2022 by invading Ukraine. As a response, the United States, United Kingdom, and France provided Ukraine with financial and military assistance, and imposed economic sanctions on Russia, while ruling out "any direct interventions to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia".[6]

And we violated it with our mucking in Ukrainian politics for over 20 years.
31 posted on 08/18/2025 9:02:34 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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