• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I think you got that wrong enough it warrants a correction…

    They gave them up for assurances that Russia and the USA would protect them if they were attacked.

    Edit: that’s why the USA is giving them weapons, they’re honoring the deal, or at least trying to, not 100% sure on specifics, I’m sure it was vague on what protecting them would entail.

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      20 days ago

      So did you.

      US agreed to bring it before the UNSC, not to protect them. Russia has veto powers.

      '93 Budapest memorandum off the top of my head if anyone wants to look it up and bring the quote forward.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        wiki says

        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”.

        what assistance would that not be if not protecting them in some way or another?