Re: [Salon] Nato honesty on Ukraine could avert conflict with Russia



Good question.  I don't know the answer but speculate that it has been overtaken by:

-- the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, in which the U.S. and NATO used force without authorization from the UN (and hence contrary to international law) to detach Kosovo from Serbia, setting a precedent for the Russian recovery of Crimea from Ukraine.

-- Ukraine's abandonment of neutrality and US-encouraged application for NATO membership in 2008.

-- the 2014 US-supported anti-Russian coup in Kyiv.

Some would no doubt argue that all these changes render the Budapest memorandum's guarantees moot under the doctrine of RES SIC STANTIBUS.

Someone else may have a better answer.

Chas

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:18 PM Walter Nicklin <walter@rappnews.com> wrote:
In all the discussions about Ukraine, why is the 1994 Budapest Memorandum never mentioned?



On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:17 AM Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:

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