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The distinction between "guarantee" and "assurance" is pretty unimportant when it comes to the Budapest Memorandum – the main problem is that all points are just "reaffirmations of commitment", and the UK, US and RF "reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security action [...] if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression [...] in which nuclear weapons are used.
There was never any guarantee, assurance, promise or even just pretension to secure Ukraine against a conventional, non-nuclear aggression. Just well worded empty phrases.
You conveniently removed the part where threat of nukes also triggers this commitment.
"Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
Fuck putin, fuck russia.
Why conveniently? Has Moskow ever threatened Ukraine with nukes? I only ever heard unofficial comments that Europe and the US should be afraid of The Mighty Russian Nuklear Force if they dare to ramp up their support for Ukraine.
My point is that the Budapest memorandum was a scam - it does not offer any protection against non-nuclear aggression or threat thereof and offers only the protection of the UNSC in case of nuclear aggression or threat thereof. But the UNSC cannot protect against one of it's veto powers by design, so even in the case of nuclear aggression or threat thereof this memorandum would not work if the UK, the US, the RF, France or China were the aggressor. Israel would likely be backed by the US, North Korea by China, so this memorandum boils down to a pinky promise that the UNSC would express it's dissatisfaction if India or Pakistan attacks Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Or threatens to do so.
The link is my reply. Did you extra conveniently miss it?
Yes. "Fuck putin, fuck russia." did not rise my attention above "I agree". Sorry.
We did provide assistance!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Jesus christ stop repeating Russian propaganda people!
I think it's very clear to any non-idiot who in this thread is spewing russian propaganda.
You realize that "we promised Ukraine protection to give up their nukes" is Russian propaganda, right?
Next you're going to tell me "NATO promised Russia to never expand eastward", right?
What you're saying is such obvious nonsense that I struggle to even begin to understand how you manage to justify that insane contradiction in your head.