
Budapest Memorandum
I had this piece published in the Nashville Tennessean on Mon. 19th Nov.
I have never heard the words “Budapest Memorandum” uttered by any media source relative to the Ukraine situation. The entirety of the media has devolved into a punditocracy with no intentions of factually reporting events of the day and allowing the public to decide what the facts mean. They only intend to slant events to support their own subjective narrative. Such actions totally bastardize the intentions of the framers of our Constitution when they memorialized freedom of the press in the First Amendment.
At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world. They had 1900 strategic nuclear weapons. As an incentive to give up these weapons and ship them to Russia for de-activation, England, Russia and the USA agreed to protect Ukraine. This agreement was signed on Dec. 5th 1994 by the two Presidents and the Prime Minister. Key elements were to provide security assurances that committed Washington, Moscow and London to “respect the independence and sovereignty and EXISTING BORDERS OF UKRAINE (emphasis added)” and to “refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine.”
I believe a former President of the USA allowed a signatory of this agreement to annex a significant portion of Ukraine without a peep. This wonderful President is revered for foreign affairs acumen by the punditocracy and the present President is vilified. I would like an answer from the mendacious pundits as to why the Budapest Memorandum is never mentioned. Anyone….??
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- -- Posted by fair share on Tue, Nov 19, 2019, at 7:54 PM
- -- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 11:14 AM
- -- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 11:15 AM
- -- Posted by cmcclanahan on Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 1:46 PM
- -- Posted by sui on Sat, Nov 30, 2019, at 8:02 PM
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