Posted on 01/14/2023 7:12:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday on FNC’s “The Story” that the United States giving Ukraine weapon systems to fight off Russia’s invasion was “just common decency.”
Anchor Martha MacCallum asked, “A lot of people say Putin’s army is nowhere near what everybody thought it was. He is going to lose this. Why are we spending all of this time and money on Ukraine? This is the argument some of them put forth. When we have other concerns here at home and other places in the world? What do you say to them, Dr. Rice?”
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Ukraine fought in Iraq as a US ally, so they have at least done that. So did many other countries.
According to the three memoranda,[5] Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they agreed to the following:
Russia signed this and has violated protocols 1,2,3 and 5
Does a violent overthrow of Ukrainian Democracy by Euromaiden Revolutionaries negate any agreements?
It wasn’t a violent overthrow.
And no, the change does not negate the Budapest agreement.
Russia promised to not only respect Ukraine’s 1994 borders, including Crimea, but also
Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory.
Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
Russia has violated every one of those agreements which were made with Ukraine with the only condition from Ukraine being Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons.
Russia reneges on international law and promises
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