Budapest Memorandum.

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24 Feb 22

Shallow Blue

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26 Feb 22

@ponderable said
First I expect Russia to keep their promise.

You do? Amazing.

I want Russia to keep its promises, but knowing Putin, I expect him to ignore them.

kevcvs57

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26 Feb 22

The Russian fifth column is out in force today
Show us the signed agreements.
Clearly Putin’s pink rinsed bitch has put the word out to his scumbag base

kevcvs57

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26 Feb 22

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@earl-of-trumps said
@Ponderable said - "First I expect Russia to keep their promise."

Funny thing about promises...
"US, UK, FRANCE PROMISED USSR NOT TO EXPAND NATO EAST OF GERMANY

Newly Discovered Document Proves.

[i]A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunificatio ...[text shortened]... hhhhhhh.... Make a difference??

USA and the West are far from blameless here in Ukraine invasion.

Any chance you might be able to draw an actual correlation between the Cuban missile crisis and Putin’s murderous campaign in Ukraine
Ukraine gave up their soviet era nukes on the basis of an assurance by Russia that it would respect Ukrainian sovereignty.
Tell me again about the west breaking promises Ivan.

no1marauder

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26 Feb 22

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When the US imposed sanctions against Belarus (another party to the Memorandum) it claimed:

"the Memorandum is not legally binding". https://web.archive.org/web/20140419030507/http://minsk.usembassy.gov/budapest_memorandum.html