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In reply to the discussion: President Obama Brilliantly Take Down a Heckler Who THINKS He’s Going to BLOW UP RUSSIA [View all]OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Google "Budapest Memorandum 1994."
When the Soviet Union collapsed, suddenly Ukraine -- home to a major part of the Soviet nuclear arsenal -- became the third largest nuclear power in the world.
The US, Russia, and UK signed the Budapest Memorandum that set up a protocol to remove nukes from Ukraine and agreeing that all sides would not muck about in Ukraine, etc., etc.http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
With the violence in Ukraine spreading, and Russian troops "exercising" near their border with Ukraine, the rightwing propaganda machine is all a'twitter, beating the war drums, claiming that we are bound by a "treaty" to come to Ukraine's aid.
Weasel Zippers, a rightwing site about as reliable as Breitbart, is close to claiming the Budapest Memorandum pledges the US will commit troops to stop a Russian invasion of Ukraine -- it doesn't do any such thing but try to sway a rightwinger with facts.
http://weaselzippers.us/177483-budapest-memorandum-treaty-signed-in-1994-may-commit-u-s-britain-to-defend-ukraine/
The loony British "Daily Mail" says the Budapest Memorandum pledges Great Britain to send troops to defend Ukraine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-British-Ambassador-Moscow-warns-Russia-invaded-Ukraine-difficult-avoid-going-war.html
Variations on this theme are all over the rightwing media outlets.
I suspect the heckler had been watching too much Fox.