Russia in violation of its agreement with Ukraine

 Red States:

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From Daily Mail:

“To be honest, it was a total disappointment for us,” she told Savannah Guthrie. “I can explain why. Today, the whole world is watching Ukrainians being executed. I cannot name it the other way around.

“The right definition is an execution because we see bombs going into our civilian houses every day, we see children dying every day on the streets or in their houses if they didn’t make it to the bomb shelter, we see bombs coming to the orphanages, to the schools. And we had been promised a protection by the international community. We gave up our nuclear weapons.”

Ukraine once possessed the world’s third-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

However, the sovereign nation signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 in which Russia, Britain and the U.S. committed to refrain from attacking Ukraine in exchange for the country turning over its nuclear arsenal to Russia to be dismantled.

So, they were talked out of their nuclear weapons (and that protection) in part because of the promise of security promised by both Russia and the United States. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was then instrumental in talking them out of a lot of their conventional weapons; the U.S. even paid to help get rid of them. We were very instrumental in leaving them naked in the face of Russia. That doesn’t mean we owe troops; it does mean that they have something of a right to expect we will be “useful.” But unfortunately, they’re stuck with Biden.

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I have not seen much said about Russia's rather blatant violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994.  Has anyone interviewed Bill Clinton about an agreement signed while he was President? 

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At last, Europe awakens to Russian threat

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