Posted on 03/03/2014 1:52:11 PM PST by fuente
A treaty signed in 1994 by the US and Britain could pull both countries into a war to protect Ukraine if President Putin's troops cross into the country.
Bill Clinton, John Major, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma – the then-rulers of the USA, UK, Russia and Ukraine - agreed to the The Budapest Memorandum as part of the denuclearization of former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Technically it means that if Russia has invaded Ukraine then it would be difficult for the US and Britain to avoid going to war.
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And a set of golf clubs!
All those millions of rounds are for domestic use only.
The world already sees the US as doing nothing....
So treaties with Russia really are meaningless and will be broken by the Russians just as the Soviets broke every treaty we signed with them as well?
Well I’m sure glad we don’t count on our nuclear deterrent being tied to an arms control treaty that only WE would be enforcing on ourselves.
I mean, it would not be good to be in a position of nuclear inferiority with the Russians, because if they were still the evil empire Reagan stated they were they might become adventurous and try to expand their borders or perhaps try to re-establish the borders of the USSR, or dominate the Arctic or something...
The problem as I see it is that some other more masculine leaders might just decide to honor their treaties with one another and bingo...shooting starts which has a way of sucking in even the unwary and unwilling
If hussein wanted to send a sharp rebuke to Russia without a direct military confrontation, he could tell the Israeli's to have their way with Iran, or even commence bombing Iran ourselves.
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