Security Promises and Intervention Realities

Remember when fire raged, and democracy was on the rise? The Budapest Memorandum

promised Ukraine security in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons. On the paper,

the US and Russia reaffirmed to refrain from subordinating Ukraine to their own interest.

But then five billion dollars flowed into opposition groups before Euromaidan revolt.

Victoria Nuland admitted this herself, standing beside a Chevron billboard. Before any Russian

tanks rolled. Before any annexation. The money was already there, shaping events.

Libya tells the same story. The UN resolution said protect civilians, enforce an arms

embargo. France and the UK led the charge under humanitarian pretenses. Then France secretly