re: Bobby Kennedy explains U.S. history re: Russian & Ukraine why Putin has right to be angry

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Joshua Shifrinson writes that analysts have long understood that states do not need formal agreements when determining expectations of future political actions, and also refers to the statements of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who recognized that even "legally non-binding" agreements constitute a necessary tool of international politics[41] and the practice of the Cold War, when informal agreements between the USSR and the USA defined the contours of the European security system (1950s and 1960s), and during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, they played a significant role in preventing a nuclear war between the USSR and the United States.

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Russia signed the Bucharest Memorandum to guarantee Ukraine's independence if it gave up its nuclear weapons along with the US, UK and others.

I guess they should have kept them.