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   From: os333@netc.eu   
      
   Mitchell Holman,    
   > "Oleg Smirnov"  wrote in   
      
   >>>   Ukraine gave up all it's nuclear   
   >>> missles in exchange for a non-agreesion   
   >>> agreement with Russia.   
   >>>   
   >>>   How well did that work out?   
   >>   
   >> The Budapest Memorandum was an addendum to the Helsinki Accords   
   >> (1975). Nobody in your bubble is enthusiastic to recall those   
   >> Accords today. It's so for a reason, since the Atlanticist ("end   
   >> of history") policies in the 1990s - 2000/10s were in glaring   
   >> violation of the principles of those Accords.   
   >   
   > Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Now it's asking why   
      
   From strict, legalistic point of view, the Budapest   
   Memorandum, as an addendum to the Helsinki Accords,   
   made sense only within context of the Accords, and   
   since the Accords were violated the Memorandum also   
   had lost its meaning.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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