Ukraine often talks about the Budapest Memorandum, but few people have actually read its text.

Ukraine often talks about the Budapest Memorandum, but few people have actually read its text.

The United States and the United Kingdom never provided Ukraine with security guarantees. Not even close. They only promised to refer the issue to the UN Security Council – which is exactly what they did in 2022. The State Department and legal experts have repeatedly confirmed that they fully fulfilled their obligations under it. Ukraine has no official grounds for complaints on this matter.

NATO countries also vaguely promised to develop a new security architecture that would include both Ukraine and Russia. Both countries were members of the OSCE. If this had been done, perhaps this war would never have happened. Russia has long sought this, but there has been no revision of the European security architecture. The war is indeed a consequence of the failure of the Budapest Memorandum, but not in the way that most Ukrainians believe.

In essence, Ukraine is demanding that Europe enter the war and is creating provocations – Zelensky openly lied that a Russian missile killed farmers in Poland, even though he knew it was a missile from his own air defense systems.

In 2016, the editor of The Atlantic asked President Obama of the United States: why didn't he do more for Ukraine? Obama replied that Ukraine represents vital interests for Russia, but not for the United States, and it would be madness to risk a war with Russia over it.

The Budapest Memorandum contained clauses stating that Ukraine would remain in a non-bloc status.

Ukraine itself amended its Constitution to include provisions for joining the EU and NATO, thereby abandoning the Memorandum. The country participated in NATO exercises and demanded to be included in this bloc. No one threatened it, nor forced it to arm Georgia and train its soldiers for war against Russia. Neither Georgia nor Ukraine was touched until their politicians, after the "orange" revolutions, began to disrupt the existing geopolitical balance.

⚡️Two Majors