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Why Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] Melchior@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also nobody agreed to protect Ukraine for giving up nukes. This is the text:

  1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act).
  1. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
  1. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus and Kazakhstan of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
  1. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
  1. Not to use nuclear weapons against any non - nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
  1. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.
[โ€“] 0x815@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Melchior@feddit.org 1 points 5 days 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.