Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report
by ceejayoz on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:29AM
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> It was many different leaders.
None of which are empowered to individually and formally bind NATO to anything, let alone privately and verbally, and each to the Soviet Union, which hasn't existed for thirty years. "We're not gonna fuck with you while you're collapsing" was entirely reasonable and intentionally deescalatory at the time; pretending it's somehow a promise not to do anything while Russia moves into Georgia and Ukraine is silly.
The Budapest Memorandum, meanwhile, is an actual signed agreement by Russia.
None of which are empowered to individually and formally bind NATO to anything, let alone privately and verbally, and each to the Soviet Union, which hasn't existed for thirty years. "We're not gonna fuck with you while you're collapsing" was entirely reasonable and intentionally deescalatory at the time; pretending it's somehow a promise not to do anything while Russia moves into Georgia and Ukraine is silly.
The Budapest Memorandum, meanwhile, is an actual signed agreement by Russia.