Bottom Line Up Front: Reporting from our remote Florida Swamp news desk – it’s déjà vu all over again. Trump’s peddling the same “security assurances” that screwed Ukraine in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum.
Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal for American “security assurances” – worthless promises that evaporated when Putin invaded. Now Trump’s coordinating with Putin while offering Ukraine new “security assurances” as part of his Nobel Peace Prize lust. Same diplomatic double-talk, same escape clauses, same setup for betrayal.
Ukraine’s been down this road before and got abandoned. Here’s the documented pattern of how “security assurances” became American code for “we’ll bail when convenient.”