Trump sells Ukraine to Putin, betrays Budapest Memorandum

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Three people with knowledge of the talks told the Guardian that Vladimir Putin had signalled a readiness to effectively freeze the frontlines of the conflict in exchange for numerous concessions, including US recognition of Russian control of Crimea and considerable US sanctions relief. The Financial Times first reported Putin's proposal on Tuesday. The vice-president, JD Vance, confirmed on Wednesday that the US would seek to "freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are today". Some territory could change hands, he said.

Posted by Sycophant at 07:27 PM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink

Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.

In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.

Trump has now betrayed that. No one, including Iran, will give up their nukes now and more countries will do everything to get nuclear weapons knowing the US can't be trusted.

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Budapest Memorandum - www.npr.org

AKA: Never trust the US or Russia. Keep or develop your nukes asap. Never make deals with the US on anything, including trade. Republicans can't be trusted.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-23 07:29 PM

Renaissance - Kiev (1972)
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[Verse 1]
He was a man just a simple man
His thoughts and pleasures were few
His bread he shared with his father
That was the life that he knew

[Chorus]
And how the snow fell in Kiev today
And how the wind drove the mourners away
Now there is only one man at the grave of Davorian
And this man's heart is too heavy to pray

[Verse 2]
He was a man just a simple man
Died at the place of his birth
His tombstone shared by the family
A silent place on the earth

[Chorus]
An old man stands by the side of the grave
And this man's heart is too heavy to pray
For he is numb with the pain
Of the love that he couldn't share
And two men died there in Kiev today

[Instrumental Break]
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[Verse 3]
He was a man just a simple man
Died at the place of his birth
His tombstone shared by the family
A silent place on the earth

[Chorus]
An old man stands by the side of the grave
And this man's heart is to heavy to pray
For he is numb with the pain
Of the love that he couldn't share
And two men died there in Kiev today
...