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The forgotten promise, how the Budapest memorandum shaped Ukraine's nightmare.

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain, and the United

States signing the Budapest memorandum.

To celebrate, Russia amassed thousands of troops on Ukraine's southern border, preparing

for another massive and bloody invasion.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, continued to ignore the situation, much to the delight

of Putin and Xi, increasing the chances of a third world war. While countries around the world

are trying to create and build nuclear weapons stockpiles, particularly China, Iran, and North Korea,

only one country in the history of the world has ever given up their nuclear

horde and unilaterally denuclearized their military, Ukraine. And former President Bill

Clinton, who brokered the deal during the fourth year of his presidency, feels terrible about

it. I feel a personal stake because I got them Ukraine to agree to give up their nuclear weapons,

Clinton said in an interview with the Irish Media Company, RTE, and none of them believed that

Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons. Clinton can be forgiven

his naivete. In 1994, Russia had not yet been turned into a fascist dictatorship. Boris Yeltsin was president,

and Russians and the world were giddy about the possibility of the country becoming a Western-style

democracy. The deal Clinton brokered is known as the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. An agreement

worked out just three years after the Soviet Union dissolved, and Ukraine had again become an independent nation.

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