The following is the exact language regarding an Agreement signed by the United States, Great Britain, and Russia regarding the security of Ukraine after Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War:
“The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a nonnuclear-weapon State, Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time, Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the Cold War, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces. Confirm the following:
| 1. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. |
| 2. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. |
| 3. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. |
| 4. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used. |
| 5. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm, in the case of the Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state. |
| 6. | The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments. This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature. Signed in four copies having equal validity in the English, Russian and Ukrainian languages.” |
What is promised by the United States, Great Britain, and Russia?
What is promised is a commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Should Ukraine be invaded the three nations would seek UN Security Council Assistance for Ukraine and consult with each other regarding the invasion. (Note the irony of one of the three being the invader.)
What are the responsibilities of the United States? What is the CSCE?
The Memorandum is not a binding Treaty ratified by the United States Senate. It does imply a special responsibility regarding Ukrainian sovereignty for the United States and Great Britain. The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe is a US government agency created to monitor the Helsinki Accords of 1975 and other agreements with Europe.
What countries support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
The so-called BRICS nations of Brazil, India, China, and South Africa who have formed an economic alliance against the West. Also, Venezuela, Belarus, North Korea, and Syria have recognized breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine known as the Lubansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic. Interestingly, a significant percentage of the French support the invasion on behalf of Russian-speaking Ukrainians and against those they consider Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
There are some commentators in the United States who feel that Russia was driven to invade Ukraine by NATO expansion and that Ukraine is a criminal enterprise whose President is a Satanist and whose soldiers wear Nazi symbols on their uniforms. Others see no American interest in Russia-Ukrainian issues regardless of the Budapest Memorandum or past Soviet atrocities against Ukrainians.
The citizen-Sovereigns of America have to decide what they feel our nation’s obligation is to Ukraine at this moment and what can be done to prevent future humanitarian brutalities of a similar nature there. Perhaps we should – with limited red tape:
| 1. | Provide Ukraine with what it needs to defend itself in cooperation with Great Britain, the European Union, NATO, and other affected countries. This would honor the spirit of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Secure, if we can, any bio-weapons labs the United States helped create in Ukraine. |
| 2. | Safeguard any Ukrainian nuclear facilities that may be damaged in conjunction with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency that would inspect and repair damaged plants immediately. |
| 3. | Support international humanitarian aid to Ukraine; special protections for fleeing women and children; and expedited special immigration to the United States of large numbers of Ukrainians, even if only for the duration of the war. Arrange for humanitarian airlift of supplies if need be. |
America’s Rule of Law includes Moral Law in addition to Constitutional Law. Regardless of our own complicity by policy, compromise, or conflict of interest regarding Russia and Ukraine, allowing another genocide of the Ukrainian people cannot be an option. Hopefully, a majority of the American people and most of the international community will agree. The slow-walking and half-measures are only causing more devastation.
