No matter how often you repeat this, the fact that this Budapest Memorandum has no binding force on America, due to lacking Senate approval, will not change. It is the right thing to do.
The Memorandum doesn't demand military intervention from the United States, no matter how hard you look for it.
And after the lovely results of America's foreign military 'adventures' over the past two decades, I still maintain that getting involved in this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the wrong thing for America right now.
No matter how often you repeat this, the fact that this Budapest Memorandum has no binding force on America, due to lacking Senate approval, will not change.
***It is an accession to an approved nuclear nonproliferation treaty, signed by the prez. Accession protocols are well established at the UN. What is the problem you have with that?
It is the right thing to do.
***The right thing to do is respect the borders and sovereignty of the Ukraine, as we signed onto.
The Memorandum doesn’t demand military intervention from the United States, no matter how hard you look for it.
***It doesn’t prevent it. It says nuke proliferation is a real bad thing and we’re gonna do sumthin about it in da Ukraine, so that’s what we did. And now that the Ukes are takin’it up the backside from the Rukes, NOW is when you’re lookin’ to get all nitpicky about rules. Then get nitpicky about accession protocols to United Nations nonproliferation treaties that have been ratified. Go ahead.
And after the lovely results of America’s foreign military ‘adventures’ over the past two decades,
***Wouldn’t be a problem if we followed the emBASEee strategee.
I still maintain that getting involved in this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the wrong thing for America right now.
***Then we never shoulda signed in 1994. It was right to sign in 1994, it was right to denuke the Ukes, and it is right to help them get their borders & sovereignty back.