On the Budapest Accord:

Ukraine President Zelensky's speech of the 19th:

Quote:Ukraine has received security guarantees for abandoning the world’s third nuclear capability. We don’t have that weapon. We also have no security. We also do not have part of the territory of our state that is larger in area than Switzerland, the Netherlands or Belgium. And most importantly—we don’t have millions of our citizens. We don’t have all this.

Quote:Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for the last time. I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.

Zelensky just said that they are going to develop nuclear weapons.

Because we cannot back the accords that engaged them to give them up.

Stupid.

There are only two solutions to the problem of a bigger, stronger, voracious neighbor: a big, strong ally, or nukes. Biden just showed them that the first option is a huge 'maybe, maybe not'.