Budapest Memorandum.
Got it.
All that does is say the participating countries will converse over questionable conduct.
No military or financial expectations are a part of that.
A Memorandum isn’t a Treaty.
No, it doesn’t. A memorandum does not have a force of a treaty. Furthermore, the Budapest memo was very clear that we were not supposed to assert our dominance there either. More importantly the government of Ukraine that was party to that was dissolved in 2014 when it was overthrown by a Nazi putsch.
Last but not least, when the Nazi forces from western Ukraine attacked Russian speakers in the east to bring them under the control of the coup government, under United Nations rules, Russia was free to act. Duty to protect.
Russia has the same legitimacy for her military action that ours did in Syria does, that ours in Kosovo did, or ours in Libya did.
4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
Ukraine was assured that UN Security Council consideration would be sought. It was sought. As everyone knew, Russia held a veto on any action by the Security Council.
A piece of toilet paper signed by Clinton.
Lacking 2/3 Senate ratification, it is meaningless.
“Budapest Memorandum.”
Useless here. It was not a military guarantee and committed us to nothing. As it was never submitted to the Senate for ratification it is not legally binding on us. That it was a Bill Clinton promise makes it even more worthless.