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Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "America's Broken Promises Matter More Than Oval Drama" video.
It is nonsensical to pretend that new administrations are bound by arrangements made by previous ones. Treaties are signed with great flourishes, but as circumstances change they become meaningless - if not downright dangerous. The Ukraine war is a case in point. When Ukraine was given the same boundary as the former SSR of Ukraine no-one would have imagined that NATO would spread eastward like some advancing plague, or that the EU would get so full of itself that it felt able to attempt to steal Russian resources in Donbass. The Budapest Memorandum, as meaningless as it is, can equally be seen as a contributing factor. Without it there might not even be a war - in the same way that without the Treaty of Versailles there might well never have been World War II, or indeed that without the treaties signed in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the Franco-Prussian War there would never have been World War I in the first place.
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