Therefore Ukraine was fully aware that the United States Supreme Court has declared executive agreements to the constitutional.
Second, to suggest the United States has any obligation to Ukraine as a result, or Iran, is a ludicrous contention in law.
I have not argued that the United States owes Iran any obligation as a matter of law or otherwise. The United States certainly owes Britain and France and even China its obligation to live up to the agreement. The obligation is not a "legal" obligation in the sense that it can compel military action, the obligation is one in which the reputation of the United States is at stake. That reputation translates, if positive, into power or it translates into lack of power on the world stage when we are shown to be faithless.
You say the United States agreed with Russia and Ukraine. I say there was never an agreement beyond what Bill Clinton could personally guarantee.
The United States has entered into countless executive agreements one of the most notable of which was the lend lease agreement done by Roosevelt before America entered World War II. It is intended that these agreements be respected. If they are not it is because the United States is not respected and, chicken and egg like, it will result in the United States not being respected.
The United States loses NOTHING in credibility or stature as a result.
Rubbish.
If Iran and Ukraine think Clinton and Obama feckless, all the better. Lesson learned.
The problem is you cannot control who will "learn the lesson."
My invitation to look at the vanity stands. This matter should be put in its proper context which is our geopolitical posture globally against several existential threats, one among them being Russia.
