@DougPolkVids If you self censor bc people throw tantrums you’re letting them get their way.
They want to shut out reasonable perspectives bc their ideas can’t stand up to them. A big part of how culture got crazy the past few years was bc decent people were deterred from speaking up.
If it was a legally binding treaty that said it was indefinite.
But instead it was a non binding memorandum that didn’t mention a date. It basically just relies upon our good will and reasonableness.
We adhered to it for 30 years and have spent hundreds of billions of dollars while we are in 35t of debt and our own people are suffering from poverty, fires, hurricane, crime etc.
My opinion is that we did our part. Yes it’s subjective but it’s reasonable.
It’s totally unreasonable however to assume a non binding memorandum obligates us perpetually. For example, if China invaded America would we still be obligation ? Obviously not so you are wrong.
The intent is ambiguous so it makes sense to apply a reasonableness concept.
It is unreasonable to think the memo persists forever regardless of what Ukraine does.
30 years and hundreds of billions of dollars, I would argue are sufficient.
America is $35T in debt. Time to focus on our issues instead of fighting a war that can't be won and is just throwing young lives into the woodchipper.
But, sure, keep living in your GTO fantasy land.
@MattGlantz Do you really think the intent was that America would continue to protect Ukraine against everyone into perpetuity regardless of what it does?
1. It's silly to believe that the US' obligations under the Budapest Memorandum were perpetual.
2. In 2014 Ukraine, with the aid of the CIA, couped its duly elected president.
3. In response to the coup, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, who mostly speak Russian, democratically decided to secede.
4. In response to 3, the Ukraine government started to cluster bomb its own citizens killing thousands of women and children.
5. In response to 4, Russia decided to intervene to save these people who are ethnically Russian.