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I don't think it was the previous administration which left Ukraine high and dry:The US leaderships, both Trump and Biden , have led the Ukrainians down the garden path to disaster. The Russian leadership bears the complete responsibility for the horrific attack on Ukraine. That said there was always a diplomatic solution and both the Ukraine and the Russian leaderships bear a responsibility for that failure along with the USA . These are the truthes of the matter imo
To bleat on by engaging in the current civil war of words in the USA itself is but a distraction and, imo, a finger to the actual nightmare that is unfolding
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances refers to three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.[1]
The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.[2]
Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia
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