[Zigurd]

Easy: what passes for diplomacy has been so awful that nobody wants to buy weapons from us anymore, nor do they value our treaty commitments. Oh the irony of proposing to meet in Budapest.

[kapone]

Buy weapons from us?? That’s your barometer?

And they are not “our” treaty commitments. Treaties by definition involve more than one party.

But out of curiosity, what commitments are talking here? Talking in abstracts is meaningless.