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Posted on 08/18/2025 7:18:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Former President Bill Clinton has expressed remorse over his role in negotiating a 1994 deal that resulted in Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal, suggesting that Russia never would have invaded its smaller neighbor if it still had nukes.
“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” Clinton told Irish broadcaster RTE in an interview that aired Tuesday.
The 42nd president was referencing a landmark post-Cold War deal in which then-Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk agreed to surrender roughly 1,900 nuclear warheads in exchange for security assurances from the US and United Kingdom, as well as a commitment from Russia to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
The pact, known as the Budapest Memorandum, was violated in 2014 when Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea.
In February 2022, Putin once again flouted the agreement when he invaded Ukraine, calling it a “special military operation.”
“I knew that President Putin did not support the agreement [then-Russian] President [Boris] Yeltsin made never to interfere with Ukraine’s territorial boundaries – an agreement he made because he wanted Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons,” Clinton said.
“They were afraid to give them up because they thought that’s the only thing that protected them from an expansionist Russia,” he added.
The former president remarked that he felt “terrible” that the deal was shattered and that Ukraine had little to offer as a deterrent to Putin’s invading forces.
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So many regrets from Ol’ Bill. “‘F’only Ah couldawouldashoulda…”’🙄
Well, at least the POS admits he’s into wholesale killing as well as wholesale rape.
He should feel “terrible” but I doubt in fact he feels anything at all about it. Filthy old psychopath.
Ukraine government are and were idiots.
You NEVER give your weapons when you are innocent.
Everybody has a right to protect themselves!
Anybody that listened to Bill Clinton was an idiot.
I have no love nor would I protect the Americans that elected him.
What nonsense Ukraine never had nuclear weapons.
The weapons in ukraine were Soviet and were always under Russian
Control.
They were never under Ukrainian control.
Clinton’s a lying sack of turd as always
The Pantload is an amoral POS who’s only content when he’s banging a pair of 16-year-olds on the Lolita Express.
Trump is right about that. Zelensky does not have the "cards". They've made a lot of mistakes since becoming independent and Russia is next door. Not good.
If Ukraine had nukes, this war would have started a long time ago.
He should also feel like crap for inflicting his grody wife on the country and the world.
What about assurances that NATO wouldn’t go any farther east, towards Russia? Oops
Turn a nut and it will not explode.
Pour a can of Coke into it and it will have to be remanufactured.
Try to seize a bomb and you’d see your whole Ukraine seized.
Okay, lets test your hypothesis.
How many declared nuclear powers have been invaded ?
Correct.
They were Soviet weapons.
Psychopaths only feign remorse after they have been caught doing something dishonest.
This is Clinton BS
The Ukraine was a major part of the Russian USSR
Ukraine was granted independence from Russia and one of the conditions was that it give up the Russian nuclear weapons- many of which were destroyed
This was one of Clinton’s few and perhaps his only foreign policy wins.
Nuclear war with one of the nuclear capable states of the USSR was a huge issue
Are you saying that President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton is admitting to a “non crime?” With Regret? I call, “BS!”
The poor bastard, Clinton, is just yearning to have people think that he did just ONE decent or worthy deed!
This.
The epitome of secular humanism taken further than most will admit they’re willing to go... but where they will end up without Christ.
Not unaliving Osama was reason to charge Billy Boy with 4,000 + murders, but Bill has a New York City Cemetary full of skeletons in his closet.
There is no scenario where Ukraine was going to leave the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons.
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