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Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine

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Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

NATO is irrelevant here. A strict interpretation of the Budapest Memorandum, however, has Russia in violation, which would oblige the US and UK to respond.

Strict interpretation says that the latest legitimate president of UA has been overthrown in coup and asked for help. That means, the currently acting representative of Ukraine are not legitimate and do not represent the Ukraine the Budapest Memorandum was about.

Not to precipitate a debate over semantics, but I don't believe being ousted by your own parliament falls under any of the standard definitions of a coup d'état.

Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine

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This time is it right next to EU Schengen border. Also there are some agreements between Ukraine and EU/USA to protect Ukraine border integrity.

GB, France and Poland agreed to attack in case of German aggression. UK and France did nothing in '39 even though that simultaneous action could've ended II world word in a year.

You can count your allies, but count only on yourself.

Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine

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This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?

The US has military bases and troops deployed around the world with wars waging in the Middle East and special ops in Africa and other locations. That doesn't seem to bother people.

Russia decides sending troops to protect predominantly Russian population of Crimea and suddenly it's WW3.

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