Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "'Trump will make Putin pay for invading Ukraine' | Gordon Sondland" video.

@a.barker7792 The liberated areas of Eastern Ukraine are already being extensively rebuilt. Paid for by Russia.
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@Lonsome1223 Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons. They were Soviet nuclear weapons, just based in Ukraine, and could only be fired on orders from Moscow. What do you mean by Ukraine, anyway?
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@ What treaty would that be then? The Budapest Memorandum is not a treaty and Putin didn't sign it anyway - Yeltsin did.
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@TheBritishCousin But it was only a memorandum, not a treaty and Putin disagrees with it. He said so at the time. There is no reason why one administration should be expected to be constrained by the mistakes of a predecessor.
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@elenadunn15 That is a point which those who hold up Budapest as some sort of Holy Writ tend to ignore.
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@JG-pk6gq But they weren't Ukrainian. The SSR of Ukraine had no control over them and the SSR wasn't a country anyway, in any real sense. It was merely an administrative unit of the Soviet Union, which was essentially controlled by Russia.
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@DanyYnady Yes. Rebuilt. There are a number of YouTubers in Mariupol documenting the city's transformation.
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Putin didn't invade Ukraine. He has liberated parts of Russia from control mistakenly handed over to Kiev.
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@AndyM_323YYY Which he didn't sign?
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@ Still a prime holiday resort, although booking are understandably down, leading to reduced prices.
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@ https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@Why not? Just because roubles are no longer traded on the international money market it doesn't mean they don't have purchasing power. Extensive rebuilding is already taking place in the liberated areas of former Eastern Ukraine.
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@ https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@a.barker7792 All of those! Obviously a holiday in Crimea is not for the faint-hearted but Russians are a sturdy lot for the most part.
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@ https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@richiecooke69 Listen, I've got a bad back. I wouldn't be much use out there!
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@peabase https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@AndyM_323YYY A treaty has many degrees and definitions and the Budapest Accords - as the name suggests - were not a formal treaty but merely a document showing a degree of agreement. Accords are more informal and not binding in the same way that treaties are.
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@AndyM_323YYY Hopefully not when another government takes over. But in my other reply I point out the difference between an accord and a treaty. I'm not sure what category of agreement his recent 100 year pledge to Ukraine takes but whatever it is I can only hope that a future government will rescind it ASAP.
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@AndyM_323YYY A different Russia signed it to the Russia of today. And it was, as I mention elsewhere, merely an informal acknowledgement of a particular position and a particular point in time. No treaty lasts forever in any case. They are just bits of paper, after all.
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@peabase My point is that areas of Eastern Ukraine liberated by the Russians are being rebuilt. The video I posted proves this. My actual comment appears to have been deleted by YouTube's insane censorship algorithm.
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@Burt-o3l Knocked about a bit, but essentially liberated and now being rebuilt in a much improved style.
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@JG-pk6gq It is a memorandum between several persons - and that's all it is. It is not Holy Writ. It merely marks a situation which existed more than thirty years ago, and which no longer exists today.
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@DanyYnady https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@johnporcella2375 https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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@johnporcella2375 Then. Not now.
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@richiecooke69 Have you been there? All I can rely on are videos like this, of which there are many. https://youtu.be/UMf96E7mzA0?si=XyxWMUtzx2Pxcgfi
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