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Ron Johnson: “We entered this Budapest memorandum with the UK And Russia…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Published | Video Starts at 25:40

… because we've entered into defensive treaties with them, they're questioning whether we will honor those treaties. And as a result, they're going to start taking actions. For example, you know, We entered this Budapest memorandum with the UK And Russia to basically assure the border integrity, the sovereignty of Ukraine. And when Russia obviously abrogated that, their own signature status to that memorandum, nothing's happened. So Russia will continue to do this. And by the way, as will then North Korea, as will Iran, as will China. (25:40–25:57)

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Asserts that Russia violated the Budapest Memorandum regarding Ukraine's sovereignty and nothing was done.

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