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What's the threat? "Do this or we'll stop helping you" is not a violation of sovereignty, distasteful though it may be in this case.
by wat10000 1y ago
What's the threat? "Do this or we'll stop helping you" is not a violation of sovereignty, distasteful though it may be in this case.
- blibble 1y agoArticle 3 of the Budapest memorandum[1]: > 3. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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 the Republic of Belarus of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. the US regime is attempting to do this [1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances_in_connection_with_the_Republic_of_Belarus%27_accession_to_the_Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_on_Security_Assura...
- timeon 1y agoMinerals deal that US pushed for was already against this.
- lostlogin 1y agoThat’s a hell of reply, and shame on the US. I don’t know this. Thank you.
- wat10000 1y agoI don't see how this qualifies. Being given weapons isn't part of sovereignty, and putting conditions on the continued flow of weapons isn't a violation of it. Economic coercion attempting to violate sovereignty would be something like the threatened (actual?) tariffs on Brazil for imprisoning Bolsonaro.