> And they were not binding anyway. And I can assure you that USSR and the eastern bloc didn't comply at all. Of course, there is no such thing as a binding in

> And they were not binding anyway. And I can assure you that USSR and the eastern bloc didn't comply at all. Of course, there is no such thing as a binding international agreement—a state that feels itself empowered to abrogate an agreement will do so, regardless of anything that it has signed. As you say, in the end, the only sure-fire tool of enforcement is war, and even that is not sure fire, because victory in war is not guaranteed. Nonetheless, despite the many and flagrant violations of the Helsinki Accords, it is plausible to trace the beginning of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact directly to the accords.