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Some home truths about the much misunderstood #BudapestMemoramdum.
I am tired of people who do not understand the Budapest Memorandum citing it as a reason for why we just support Ukraine. There are good arguments for supporting Ukraine, but this isn't one of them. First...[1/n]
I am tired of people who do not understand the Budapest Memorandum citing it as a reason for why we just support Ukraine. There are good arguments for supporting Ukraine, but this isn't one of them. First...[1/n]
...the US and UK broke the Budapest Memorandum long before 2014. The Memorandum was signed on on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of...[2/n]
...Nuclear Weapons. That is to say, not just Ukraine, but also Belarus and Kazakhstan. Article 3 says that signatories should "Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its...[3/n]
