| This is how international law works: it doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... This is a treaty document that says that if, at any time, Russia (or anyone else) violates the territorial integrity of Ukraine (/Belarus/Kazakhstan), with Crimea specifically called out, ironically, the United Kingdom and the United States have to immediately declare war on Russia and open hostilities. France has a separate treaty with Ukraine containing the same promise, as do a number of other countries. Putin invaded Crimea. Many countries declared openly that Russia violated the "Budapest memorandum" ... and did nothing. Minimal sanctions (especially in the case of Italy, they could have done a lot. They did nothing) What people don't realize about president Zelensky is that he, quite a bit before the war with Russia started, commented and even partially planned the development of nuclear weapons. He's gone further and suggested previous governments agreed to denuclearization, not out of the interest of Ukraine but because they were corrupt and paid by Putin. I'm saying there's even a small chance he might see it as treason not to agree to develop nuclear weapons once this is over. I'm just saying, one of the things that's bound to be coming from Ukraine ... we might not like very much. Ukraine has all the necessary resources and know how to rapidly develop nuclear weapons, from Uranium to nuclear physics research departments (plural), homegrown rocket engines and control systems. They probably can develop ICBM nuclear weapons (and, again, they don't have to match US state of the art weapons, they only have to match Russia. And when it comes to money, they have an economy that allows them to outspend Russia's nuclear weapons programs by a lot) This illustrates Russia's problem: long term (think 50 years) Ukraine will win from Russia. That is essentially unavoidable. Promises, documents, international law itself is not worth the often copious amounts of paper dedicated to them. |
It says no such thing (as the Wikipedia article you linked points out). The most it says is that they shall seek "immediate United Nations Security Council action" if "Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used."
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securi...