On ignore souvent que les USA et le royaume uni (mais pas la France !) se sont formellement engagés à protéger l'intégrité territoriale de l'Ukraine par le " mémorandum de Budapest " signé en 1994.
Autrement dit depuis que la Crimée a été détachée de l'Ukraine et réunie à la Russie , les deux puissances anglo saxonnes ont failli à leur engagement.
Le texte :
" 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 respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
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 Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used."
Maintenant je pense qu on peut tirer quelques enseignements de cet accord solennel. Tout d'abord on comprends mieux pourquoi les soldats russes ne voulaient pas s'avouer tels en Ukraine en mars dernier et pourquoi Moscou nie toujours son implication au Donbass : pour ne pas permettre à Kiev de faire jouer cet engagement anglo américain.
Mais on se dit aussi que cet engagement est de bien Faible valeur puisque l'atteinte à l'integrite de l'Ukraine a eu lieu sans vraie réaction des anglo américains !
Ou ai je mal compris ?
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