US PRESIDENTS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF UKRAINE (AND THE UN), AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUTIN - Knowledge is Power
Come on, media. Stop telling us black is white. Here I have just noted the irrefutable conclusive evidence. I will publish updates if I formulate it into an article. Please add detail in the comments!
George H. W. Bush
January 20, 1989, to January 20, 1993
Insinuating Russia illegally into the UN.1
Forcing asset stripping and social support stripping of Russia - The Washington consensus - with financial pressure and possibly the bribe of a “veto”, turning it into an oligarchy - instead of a normal member of the international community. (Which at the time was pushing for abolition of the vetos.)2
Supporting Yeltsin retaining and accumulating nuclear weapons, in violation of the Belavezha Accord and Alma Ata Protocols which provided for shared control pending denuclearisation.
Dis-empowering the democratic states of Ukraine and Belarus.
Clinton
January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001
1994 forcing Ukraine into the Budapest memorandum with financial and political pressure. Knowing the Memorandum referred to the Security Council, which Russia ostensibly could veto. (Irish TV interview)
Did Clinton know Russia didn’t ratify the Budapest Memorandum? (Check - Did it need to be ratified?)
Did nothing in 1999 Yeltsin told him “just give Europe to Russia”3 - on the day of signing the Charter for European Security - which reaffirmed all states’ right to join Nato, and outlawed and “sphere’s of influence” in Europe.
George W. Bush
January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009
Obama
January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
Refused support, even arms sales, to Ukraine
Despite Clinton’s report in 2010 that Putin as much as told him he would invade Ukraine - Bill Clinton: Why There Is No Palestinian State & How Democrats Can Win Again at 33:49:
34:17 “I met with him in 2010 and I was talking to him about Ukraine. He said ‘I know know what you're going to say I know you made a deal with Boris Nikolayevich to protect the territorial Integrity of Ukraine in return for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons and putting them under supervision of the international Authority
34:49 ‘but within Russia’ but he said ‘let me remind you he never got the Duma to ratify that agreement so it does not have a force of treaty and I do not agree with it and I will not observe it.’
35:07 “He basically said in 2010 four full years before he took Crimea that he was coming after Ukraine and I dutifully reported it to the government and went on with my business.“
Refused any military aid for defence of the 2014 Russiamn invasion.
Forced Ukraine into the Minsk 1 and 2 Occupation “agreements” without, or contrary to, the facts showing Russia’s pretexts for the invasion were without any foundation. To the extent that Putin literally admitted the invasion on video in 20154, and UN investigations found the allegations unfounded5.
Trump
2017 to 2021
Stopped sales, and delivery of military aid voted by Congress
Attempted to blackmail Ukraine - exploit it’s predicament for his personal benefit
One single vote of aid released when impeachment threatened(?)
Biden
January 20, 2021, to January 20, 2025
December 2021-February 2022 green-lighted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine6, blocked support from NATO countries.
Refused aid to Ukraine as soon as they started winning at the end of 2022 - lying that it was caused by the GOP blocking Congressional votes - when he all the time had the Lend Lease legislation authorising him to provide unlimited military aid on lend-lease. He just didn’t use it,
Footnotes
Images - Russia and the UN
The video and documents proving Russia is not in the UN, and it's representatives can be expelled by a simple majority (of members present and voting, abstentions aren’t counted) resolution of the UN General Assembly, within a week. No veto, no "reform".
See Newsweek Magazine, Jul 05, 2023: Exclusive: The CIA's Blind Spot about the Ukraine War