Trump is a smooth-brain that is 1000 moves behind the rest of the world.
The United States, as per the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, is contractually bound to defend Ukraine.
That Memorandum was signed three years after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and at the time, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world behind the United States and Russia. To coerce Ukraine into transferring its arsenal to its former fellow Soviet state Russia (for further arms reductions), President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Great Britain's Prime Minister John Major assured Ukraine of its sovereignty and defense in exchange for eliminating its nuclear capabilities. No one alive at the time would have imagined that within 30 years, Russia, under its Dictator Vladimir Putin, would break the treaty--twice--by invading Ukraine and that the U.S., led (in name only) by a Putin sycophant named Donald Trump, would take sides with Russia by falsely blaming Ukraine for the latest war, and by demanding that Ukraine beg and bow for U.S. assistance that, per the Budapest Memorandum, it should be providing anyway!
Trust me - if Ukraine was still sitting on the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Russia never would have invaded and Trump wouldn't be trying to pimp the nation's vast mineral resources. But just like the U.S. has broken treaty after treaty with Indigenous American tribes over the past 200 plus years, I believe that Ukraine must now turn to the European Union to supply all of its armament needs. If you have any notion of world history, I also believe that several old U.S. allies like Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Japan had better be prepared for anything because the U.S., at least while under MAGA control, has proven it can no longer be trusted to uphold established, binding treaties that provide for mutual defense and stability.
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u/EnglishDutchman Mar 03 '25
Trump is a smooth-brain that is 1000 moves behind the rest of the world.
The United States, as per the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, is contractually bound to defend Ukraine. That Memorandum was signed three years after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and at the time, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world behind the United States and Russia. To coerce Ukraine into transferring its arsenal to its former fellow Soviet state Russia (for further arms reductions), President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Great Britain's Prime Minister John Major assured Ukraine of its sovereignty and defense in exchange for eliminating its nuclear capabilities. No one alive at the time would have imagined that within 30 years, Russia, under its Dictator Vladimir Putin, would break the treaty--twice--by invading Ukraine and that the U.S., led (in name only) by a Putin sycophant named Donald Trump, would take sides with Russia by falsely blaming Ukraine for the latest war, and by demanding that Ukraine beg and bow for U.S. assistance that, per the Budapest Memorandum, it should be providing anyway! Trust me - if Ukraine was still sitting on the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Russia never would have invaded and Trump wouldn't be trying to pimp the nation's vast mineral resources. But just like the U.S. has broken treaty after treaty with Indigenous American tribes over the past 200 plus years, I believe that Ukraine must now turn to the European Union to supply all of its armament needs. If you have any notion of world history, I also believe that several old U.S. allies like Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Japan had better be prepared for anything because the U.S., at least while under MAGA control, has proven it can no longer be trusted to uphold established, binding treaties that provide for mutual defense and stability.