False statements. Back to the original discussion, ever heard of the Budapest memorandum? The Russian representative at that time signed this guaranteeing the borders of Ukraine. Today's Russia, called Putinstan by some, is the party that actually retreated from its guarantee. Who is the unreliable party ?
False statements. Back to the original discussion, ever heard of the Budapest memorandum? The Russian representative at that time signed this guaranteeing the borders of Ukraine. Today's Russia, called Putinstan by some, is the party that actually retreated from its guarantee. Who is the unreliable party ?
Sweet gentleman, i'll let you in on a huge secret here! You see, without the ratification of any document, signed by the president, prime-minister, supreme leader or the master of the universe, by the parliament of the signatory state, said document isn't worth the paper it was written on. And now the funniest part: the only country's parliament that did ratify this pretty controversial and non-binding agreement, was that of the Russian Federation! Although, seeing that no one gives a damn about it, even ukrainians, they've rescinded on this rash deed some time later.
Moreover, i should remind you, that there is another, absolutely same agreement, signed in the same day and in the same place by the already involved "big" countries with.. Belarus! And the agreement, just like the one with the Ukraine, proclaims that unilateral sanctions are.. Well.. Kinda bad. As you well remember, the Us has imposed them in mid 00's, saying in its excuse that the agreement is non-binding and, in any case whatsoever, they're imposing restrictions on the people of Belarus specifically for the good of the people of Belarus and blahblah. Question: do you remember any ukrainian official say anything in protest or even to just appeal to the signatories, to anyone, really, to revise or the unratified non-binding agreement? Well i sure don't!
So what do you want now, after all of this and much more, like Kosovo, has been done?
US and all the other UN SC members also signed UNSC resolution 1244 which guarantees territorial integrity of Serbia, yet that has prevented them to carve out by force an "independent" statelet of Kosovo. Observers back then realized that this was a watershed moment of 21st century because big multiethnic countries (such as Russia and China, but also others) are clearly going to be targeted by US slicing tactic. We also see this in Syria when US is occupying almost a third and eventually wants to create a Kurdish "Kosovo".
Would that be the "Budapest memorandum" that the US declared to be "not legally binding" when they sanctioned Belarus in contravention of that memorandum?
False statements. Back to the original discussion, ever heard of the Budapest memorandum? The Russian representative at that time signed this guaranteeing the borders of Ukraine. Today's Russia, called Putinstan by some, is the party that actually retreated from its guarantee. Who is the unreliable party ?
Sweet gentleman, i'll let you in on a huge secret here! You see, without the ratification of any document, signed by the president, prime-minister, supreme leader or the master of the universe, by the parliament of the signatory state, said document isn't worth the paper it was written on. And now the funniest part: the only country's parliament that did ratify this pretty controversial and non-binding agreement, was that of the Russian Federation! Although, seeing that no one gives a damn about it, even ukrainians, they've rescinded on this rash deed some time later.
Moreover, i should remind you, that there is another, absolutely same agreement, signed in the same day and in the same place by the already involved "big" countries with.. Belarus! And the agreement, just like the one with the Ukraine, proclaims that unilateral sanctions are.. Well.. Kinda bad. As you well remember, the Us has imposed them in mid 00's, saying in its excuse that the agreement is non-binding and, in any case whatsoever, they're imposing restrictions on the people of Belarus specifically for the good of the people of Belarus and blahblah. Question: do you remember any ukrainian official say anything in protest or even to just appeal to the signatories, to anyone, really, to revise or the unratified non-binding agreement? Well i sure don't!
So what do you want now, after all of this and much more, like Kosovo, has been done?
US and all the other UN SC members also signed UNSC resolution 1244 which guarantees territorial integrity of Serbia, yet that has prevented them to carve out by force an "independent" statelet of Kosovo. Observers back then realized that this was a watershed moment of 21st century because big multiethnic countries (such as Russia and China, but also others) are clearly going to be targeted by US slicing tactic. We also see this in Syria when US is occupying almost a third and eventually wants to create a Kurdish "Kosovo".
The United States carved up Serbia, but Ukraine's borders are sacred and inviolate.
Hypocrisy, meet thy maker.
Would that be the "Budapest memorandum" that the US declared to be "not legally binding" when they sanctioned Belarus in contravention of that memorandum?
You are trying to change the subject.
That said, the Budapest Memorandum was predicated upon Ukrainian neutrality.
Not true, no reservations were made at the signing of the Budapest Memorandum.
The United had promised that NATO would not expand to the east.