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The Budapest Memorandum was explicitly stated to not be legally binding. It wasn't guarantees, but assurances, and the US broke these assurances first:
This was the reasoning given for sanctioning Belarus in 2013. The west backing the far-right Banderite coup in 2014 was an even greater violation of Ukrainian sovereignty. Ukraine also did not give up "its" nukes, but returned the soviet nukes Moscow had stationed there prior to the dissolution of the USSR that were a part of the multi-national nature of the soviet union.
The Budapest Memorandum was neither binding nor respected by the west to begin with.
…And they deleted their July 2023 account.
I didn't delete shit, I was banned because there weren't any counterarguments to the points I was presenting in my replies (which were also removed as well, would you look at that!). The best part is that the moderator who banned me is being kept anonymous, what a courageous bunch we got on lemmy.ml (≧▽≦) (≧▽≦)