@duviobaz @RadicalGraffiti @krimsonbun
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#Putin does everything to not only make #NATO look like a "necessary evil" but "justified to join in"...

Simply by virtue of breaking the #BudapestMemorandum and thus making it clear that one cannot trust #Russia neither in Words nor Writing!

Thus Putin's Russia can be glad that both #UK & #USA didn't follow their contractual obligations as allies of #Ukraine with #BootsOnTheGround...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

@chowderman @amayer @buermoy plz don't use #LinkShorteners as they are susceptible to #LinkRot.

The lack of #Resolve by #NATO members #UK & #USA to follow their obligations as per #BudapestMemorandum are seen as a sign of #weakness.

For the UK this was evident with the lack of reaction regarding the #PRC's violation of the Joint #SinoBritishDeclaration in #Hongkong.

Thus the #MilitaryAid is a sorry excuse for the lack of #BootsOnTheGround that would be expectable as per treaty.

@Wonnecken @RitaWerner Ja, 1994 - #BudapestMemorandum, welches auch deren Territorialie Integrität und Unabhängigkeit garantiert.

Ruslland hat's gebrochen und die USA & UK waren zu feige deren Bündnisverpflichtungen als Garantenmächte zu erfüllen.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapester_Memorandum

@archpundit what "U.S. agression?"

#Russia violated the #BudapestMemorandum - all the #USA and #NATO do is enforce the pre-2013 #StatusQuo!

@EugeneMcParland
@timkmak

Thanks for sharing this. As Ukraine makes more effective acts of self-defence, it is important to consider Russia's military reaction. Robust air defence is key to protecting everyone in Ukraine against #retaliation by Russia. Recent events have shown us how terribly violent and untargeted such retaliation can be when wrought by Russia.

If anyone knows someone who has any clout with the population of #Australia and/or #Japan (non #NATO countries whose populations respect the rule of universal law, and are aghast to see such brutal interference in another nation's #sovereignty) now may be the time for us, on bended knee, to beg consideration of the sale or donation of #FA18 (Au) or #F15 (Jp) to Ukraine, or to an intermediary who might see them refurbished and put to use so that other aircraft could be made available to Ukraine.

These measures are not without cost - both monetary and political. Ukraine is one of the only nuclear powers who held a delivery system ready, to ever have gone through #NuclearDisarmament. It is incumbent upon anyone who wants to provide future generations, and the #environment they inherit, with a credible pathway to global #nuclear disarmament to ask: "what can we as individuals do for, or give to, those countries and people we would ask for help?".

#BudapestMemorandum
#InternalLocusOfControl #StriveToHonourTheRightToLifeOfNonCombatants

@gavinisdie @BlueDot @EugeneMcParland I'd rather think that #Ukraine will either quit the NPT due to Russia's agression and violation of the #BudapestMemorandum or at the very least will demand #EU & #NATO membershio including stationing of short- & medium range ballistic missiles and warheads.

Belarus' Lukashenko asks for Russian security guarantees

https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-lukashenko-asks-for-russian-security-guarantees/a-65273556?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#AlexanderLukashenko #Belarus #BudapestMemorandum #tacticalnuclearweapons #SergeiShoigu #VladimirPutin

Ага, забрали всю ядерну зброю, і не тільки стратегічну, а й навіть тактичну, і віддали все у Московію, яка це все в себе накопичила. Що могло піти не так?
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RT @KyivPost
In an interview with Irish news service #RTÉ released on Tuesday, April 4, former U.S. President @BillClinton expressed regret over the 1994 #BudapestMemorandum
https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1643551361135435776

@walterdunham since when.did the #ICC ever got theor hands of a #WarCriminal who's a citizen of a #UN - #VetoPower?

The #USA literally weaponized #sanctions and #embargos against ICC personnel to force them to not investigate #WarCrimes in #Iraq and #Afghanistan.

Not to mention BOTH invasions are #CeimesOfAggressions - just like the #Russia|n violation of the #BudapestMemorandum since 2013.
It's just the #cowardice of the USA & #UK that #Ukraine was left alone, creating dangerous precedences.

@ManyRoads this fecking coward should get #BootsOnTheGround as per #BudapestMemorandum.

@PeterPeckerstick it's still not even 1% of the commitment the #USA & #UK bindingly declared themselves to obligate amidst #Russia's violations of the #BudapestMemorandum since 2013.

Otherwise they'd have #BootsOnTheGround!

@stux IMHO it's still a poor excuse.

#USA & #UK refused to follow their obligations as per #BudapestMemorandum, otherwise they'd have #BootsOnTheGround since the invasion of #Crimea...

@Timon @RouxJ also I think that #Ukraine has already suffered too much due to western #cowardice to enforce the #BudapestMemorandum against #Russia...

#BootsOnTheGround was overdue in 2013:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

@mister_burns Es ist die #Feigheit des Westens [#EU & #NATO] die das Problem ist.

Wenns nach mir ginge hätte man der #Ukraine bereits 2013 bei der Teilinvasion auf der #Krim konsequent helfen und #Russland per #Totalembargo inklusive #Seeblockade zum Rückzug zwingen müssen.

Die Tatsache dass weder #UK noch #USA als #Garantenmächte gem. #BudapestMemorandum Truppen schicken bestärkt #Putin.

@autumnrainn @mindy

If you're wanna quit #BudapestMemorandum, that's fine, give back Ukrainian nukes.

@tazgetroete besser spät als nie.

So oder so ist der Westen feige, denn eigentlich wäre seit 2013 der #Bündnisfall gemäß #BudapestMemorandum...

@buermoy Hinzu kommt das #BudapestMemorandum von 1994 womit die #Ukraine sich nuklear entwaffnete im Gegenzug territoriale Integrität und vollständige Souveränität garantiert bekommt.

Leider sind #USA & #UK als #Garantenmächte zu feige, denn formell wären diese seit 2013 im #Bündnisfall mit der Ukraine!

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapester_Memorandum#Inhalt_und_Hintergrund

@apmassaro3
Muscovy can receive security guarantees after leaving Ukraine in exchange for all their nukes!
#BudapestMemorandum
#TreatyOnTheNonProliferationOfNuclearWeapons

I don't know how many times we must still repeat this! Give #Ukraine the weapons they ask for which you all have available but won't give because your weapons, your rules! You are prolonging this war unnecessary. Or give #Ukraine their #nuclear weapons back! We all know that's why #Putin calls the shots he was part of the clan which removed them and now look at where we are! Second invasion by #Russia in #Ukraine since the #BudapestMemorandum. This is NOT fair! #Armukrainenow

RT @DriurHCSchueler@twitter.com

Ja, heute vor 28 Jahren wurde das #Budapestmemorandum unterzeichnet. Kein Vertrag in der Weltgeschichte wurde auf derart hinterhältige und schäbige Art und Weise gebrochen wie dieser durch #Putin-#Russland. Kaum einer wurde so treulich eingehalten wie dieser seitens der #Ukraine. https://twitter.com/lena4berger/status/1599772804974419969

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DriurHCSchueler/status/1599788145460944897