Another nail in the coffin of nuclear non-proliferation. Russia, the UK, and the US promised to refrain from such economic extortion in the Budapest Memorandum

Another nail in the coffin of nuclear non-proliferation. Russia, the UK, and the US promised to refrain from such economic extortion in the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons: 3. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the Principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securi...