“It is not a nitpick, it is our law.”
Notwithstanding RevMom’s point, the point I was making is, Ukraine’s Constitution (unlike the American one) EXPLICITLY requires ANY change to the national borders, state accession or secession, or significant Constitutional amendment, to be put to the Rada OR to a general referendum for ratification before it is implemented.
Yanukovych broke his constitutional obligation by signing away Ukrainian sovereignty to Moscow, while in Moscow, on December 17th 2013, without even telling his own Prime Minister what he was doing.
If, as you say, a treaty ain’t binding unless Senate ratifies it, then logic dictates that Ukraine already had an even more explicit requirement than the USA had... and Putin somehow got Yanukovych to do something so unconstitutional you’d have trouble giving an example of an American President doing anything as serious.
Imagine a US President signing an executive order to abolish the right to bear arms without even talking to the Senate or House of Representatives, and his own party knowing nothing about him planning to do it until after he’d done it.
That’s pretty much how it went down. Of course Ukraine had riots in the streets with people calling for Yanukovych’s head.
You think the USA wouldn’t have riots in the streets and people calling for POTUS’ head if POTUS violated his oath of office on that scale AND did so because he was ordered to by Xi or Putin?
“You think the USA wouldn’t have riots in the streets and people calling for POTUS’ head if POTUS violated his oath of office on that scale AND did so because he was ordered to by Xi or Putin?”
I don’t care about any of that. That’s their problems, not my country and none of our business. We have too many of our own problems festering and domestic enemies to oppose to be running around the world righting wrongs.