June 28, 2025
What Happened to the Budapest Memorandum?
In 1994, under U.S. pressure, Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. Over 1,000 cruise missiles. A fleet of strategic bombers. All dismantled — with U.S. assistance — in exchange for security assurances from the U.S., the UK, and russia.
This agreement was called the Budapest Memorandum.
This week, the U.S. State Department and the White House have deleted all references to this agreement from their websites.
Let that sink in.
Russia has not just violated the Memorandum — it has weaponized the very missiles Ukraine gave up. Missiles once meant to deter aggression are now used against Ukrainian cities.
And while the U.S. and UK did not invade Ukraine, they made a promise — not just a moral one, but a strategic and legal commitment. As Steven Pifer, one of the U.S. negotiators of the Memorandum, stated: “There is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest Memorandum to provide assistance to Ukraine, and […] that would include lethal military assistance.”
Instead, since Trump’s return to power, U.S. support has dried up. Aid has been frozen. Military shipments stopped. Sanctions lifted. And now, as if to bury the memory of that promise — even the record of the Budapest Memorandum is being erased.
If a great power can persuade a weaker state to disarm, and then abandon it — what lesson does that send to the rest of the world?
It’s simple: never disarm. Never trust. Never believe Western security guarantees.
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The White House is seeking to cut funding for war crimes investigations, including those related to Ukraine.
According to Reuters, the proposed cuts would impact organizations like Global Rights Compliance, which documents crimes against humanity such as rape and torture, and Legal Action Worldwide, which supports Ukraine’s efforts to prosecute russian war crimes.
The decision is not yet final — the U.S. State Department can file an appeal. However, sources say Secretary of State Marco Rubio is unlikely to defend most of the programs. He may push to preserve a few key initiatives, particularly those tied to prosecutions in Ukraine.
An internal State Department memo warns that appeals must be highly justified and tightly aligned with U.S. strategic priorities, significantly reducing the chances for most programs to survive.
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North Korea may send additional troops to russia to fight against Ukraine within the next two months.
According to South Korean intelligence, this move is likely tied to preparations for a potential large-scale russian offensive during that period. The assessment follows signs of renewed mobilization in North Korea and a recent visit by a senior russian Security Council official to Pyongyang.
Beyond combat troops, up to 25,000 North Koreans may also be deployed to russia to assist in manufacturing “Shahed” drones. Additionally, Pyongyang is expected to send 1,000 sappers and 5,000 military construction workers to support reconstruction efforts in the Kursk region.
Source: Reuters
Bill Clinton April 2023:
“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” Clinton told Irish broadcaster RTE in an interview that aired Tuesday.”
Source :
https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/bill-clinton-regrets-having-ukraine-give-up-nuclear-weapons/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
Ukraine is facing a massive onslaught in the coming months. From four nuclear powers : the fucking CRINKs.
Yet no one will give help at the level that is needed: approximately 500% of what it is now.
is deleted, no wonder Iran won’t sign a Budapest Memorandum 2.0. Since 1900 USA kept SU/RF alive cause it makes them money. Now Europe must help Ukraine win.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address on January 17, 1961: (404)
Instead, the United States was “compelled to create a permanent armaments industry” and a huge military force. He admitted that the Cold War made clear the “imperative need for this development,” but he was gravely concerned about “the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” Necessary though that development might be, Eisenhower warned, this new military-industrial complex could weaken or destroy the very institutions and principles it was designed to protect.
Eisenhower’s Warning: Military Industrial Complex’s Growing Budget | Think Back | The New York Times
Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Obama