• 0x815@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    Also nobody agreed to protect Ukraine for giving up nukes.

    This is irrelevant. We have to do it anyway, no matter whatever they agreed upon 30 years ago.

    • Melchior@feddit.org
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      14 hours ago

      I see the argument with the Budapest Memorandum everywhere and it is just not true. If it were true, all parties would have broken it, when Russia took Crimea. That would make all the actual security guarantees, which have been given to Ukraine for the time after the war worthless, while questioning NATO and the EU as alliances, with two of the most powerful members not actually delivering the protection they promised. So I find it very relevant to point this out.