In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.
You’re putting words in my mouth now, you should read your own source instead.
It says: [The Budapest Memorandum]
prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Note economic coercion against Belarus. That’s exactly what the United States did in 2013, objectively violating the agreement. Where does the US get the right to denounce Russia for violating the same agreement they did a decade ago?
You’re putting words in my mouth now, you should read your own source instead.
It says: [The Budapest Memorandum]
Note economic coercion against Belarus. That’s exactly what the United States did in 2013, objectively violating the agreement. Where does the US get the right to denounce Russia for violating the same agreement they did a decade ago?