That’s not quite fair. There was discussion right at the time that it was signed as to whether it imposed an obligation on the U.S. and U.K. to intervene militarily if Ukraine was attacked, and we made it clear way back then that we were not agreeing to that. It was essentially an agreement that none of the signatories would themselves violate that territorial integrity. Nor would such a promise have been binding even if we had made it given that it wasn’t a treaty that went through the Senate.
That’s not quite fair. There was discussion right at the time that it was signed as to whether it imposed an obligation on the U.S. and U.K. to intervene militarily if Ukraine was attacked, and we made it clear way back then that we were not agreeing to that.
***Then give the Ukes back their Nukes, per my tagline. Theuy honored the agreement, we are NOT honoring it. If they had nukes, Russia never woulda invaded them.
It was essentially an agreement that none of the signatories would themselves violate that territorial integrity. Nor would such a promise have been binding even if we had made it given that it wasn’t a treaty that went through the Senate.
***The Ukes had enough nukes to kill hundreds of millions of people. They HONORed the agreement, we’re now niggling over whether it was nonbinding or somesuch bullshiite. There is no reason for any other country to EVER trust us as a result. They’ve got nuke power plants, they even have the learnings and shame of Chernobyl. They can and probably are building their own nukes, they’re in an existential war, who is to blame them if they drop nukes on Russia? Us? We dropped nukes on Japan in our existential war, and we are the ones betraying them. Appeasement niggling like yours is sending Ukraine down a hard path of nuclear re-proliferation with real possibility of nuke exchange. All because of a bunch of pantywaist appeasers, just like what happened in Sudetenland — only this time the consequences are nuclear.