Political Quotes

“The United States has more than just a moral and strategic duty to the sovereign people of Ukraine. Twenty years ago, the United States, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom came together to sign the Budapest Memorandum. This agreement reaffirmed the common commitment of those signatory nations ``to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.'' And in return for that promise of protecting those borders, Ukraine dismantled its vast nuclear weapons complex, the third largest in the world. With that memorandum in hand, Ukraine did what it promised, but what about the other signatories to that agreement? Today, the Budapest Memorandum appears to be a hollow promise. It comes as little surprise that Russia would break that promise, but it disappoints me to no end that the free world, led by the United States of America, seems reluctant to honor its promises to take a more effective role as a coalition of nations and civil society organizations to help Ukraine stand on its own in the face of internal carnage perpetrated by Russia. NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, a man who knows an enormous amount about that continent, recently expressed his deep concern that our focus has been pulled away from Russia's proxy invasion of Ukraine. ``Folks have taken their eye off of Ukraine a little bit because of Syria,'' he said.…”