“... we are guarantors of the territorial integrity of post-Cold War Ukraine ...”
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Show me the contract.
I don’t believe the Senate ratified the Budapest Memorandum.
Just another “Feel Good” meaningless gesture from the Clinton Administration, that wound up guaranteeing that this day would eventually come.
The Budapest Memorandum is not indeed a ratified treaty, but it is a document signed by our President (well, by Clinton...) and the UK's Prime Minister, and Yeltsin. Without a ratification it is not enforceable. Nevertheless it is an obligation the US undertook. Do we really want to put the aftermath of the Cold War into question? Do we want to debase our diplomatic guarantee in general, and still call ourselves the leader of the free world?