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Trump's Flagrant Betrayal of Ukraine Is an Outrage (www.realclearpolitics.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [B] to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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The president's outright betrayal of Ukraine shows the U.S. is in a precarious position

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Not to defend Trump action but he never promised to help Ukraine

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Ripping away Starlink was a betrayal, was it not?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    We signed an agreement with Russia and Ukraine, promising Ukraine military defence in exchange for them giving up their nukes. Russia also promised to never attack Ukraine. We made an agreement that we're morally obligated to follow.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Nope. The Budapest memorandum does not promise military defense in any way. The closest that it promises to military defense is that the US (and all other parties to the agreement) is required to submit a report to the UN security council if Ukraine gets nuked.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Just promised to end the war on day one. No biggy.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Right. Fair. Trump was always Ukraine's enemy.

    Right now America is betraying Ukraine by letting Trump do this.

    Unfortunately, there's nothing our political system can do about it at least until the midterms, but hopefully we'll see some real change after that.

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