“1999 was a banner year for the Ukraine and treaties with the US”
Please point me to one treaty which binds the US to the defense of Ukraine.
Please point me to one treaty which binds the US to the defense of Ukraine.
Certainly:
https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/106th-congress/16/document-text
Until there is a war, all activities against the determinations of a country is considered criminal. You’ll notice in the body of the treaty:
“Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes: taking of testimony or statements of persons; providing documents, records, and articles of evidence; serving documents; locating or identifying persons; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes; executing requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to restraint, confiscation, forfeiture of assets, restitution, and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the requested state.”
So the providing of information against people who violated their laws is the same, and has included, providing information on people that were moving munitions and information for the violent attacks of Ukraine people. The telling part of the treaty on this is “and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the requested state.
Also, the US is a strong member of NATO which has been in a partnership with the Ukraine since the early to mid 1990’s with their joining the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (1991) and the Partnership for Peace program (1994). It was in February 1994 that Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to conclude a framework agreement with NATO in the framework of the Partnership for Peace initiative, supporting the initiative of Central and Eastern European countries to join NATO. That treaty signed into NATO from the Ukraine was signed in in December 1994 and Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to conclude a protection framework agreement with NATO in the framework of the Partnership for Peace initiative, supporting the initiative of Central and Eastern European countries to join NATO.
If you tack the P for P initiative along with the criminal treaty between the US and the Ukraine above mentioned, signed by Clinton in 1999, I’d say we were under treaty agreement with the Ukraine for almost anything resembling a criminal and military attack upon the country.
I am in direct disagreement with the arming of the Ukraine with anything but defensive weapons, but the comedian in charge over there is going to push the envelope on their uses especially when the determination of what belongs to who is blurred so bad. And it appears we’re stuck with previous mismanagement at our location as much as theirs.
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