Talking about the third point on economic coersion:
We have recordings of several people bragging about making aid money contingent on "quid pro quo" bullshit.
Firstly, Russia did it first in far more severe manner relevant to that point.
In an interview with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, Steven Pifer discusses the causes behind the mass protests that have erupted in Ukraine and explains the reasons why Ukrainian President Yanukovych chose not to sign the association agreement with the European Union.
www.brookings.edu
Secondly, learn to fucking read.
refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty
Was this particular coercion "designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty"?
Read this sentence carefully, it doesn't ban "any quid pro quo bullshit", but a very specific and severe kind of coercion. Giving or not giving any money absolutely does not qualify, sovereignty of any country is not based on getting aid money from someone. What Russia did in the linked case and possibly several others, may well do qualify.
And let's not forget breaking the
first fucking point of the memorandum in a completely shameless manner by swiping Crimea.
But cool that you bring up the Budapest Memorandum.
I would also not be surprised if the State Department training of "media experts" all of six months before the Euromaiden, who proceeded to use that exact training to coordinate it, tripped the sovereignty terms.
Good. Russia should not have been
poisoning inconvenient Ukrainian presidential candidates if they think such interference is unacceptable.
Also hilarious how all the fan of western self-blaming and conspiracies regarding Maidan never mention the events preceding it, like Russia "reining in" their favored president by use of a friggin
open trade war in retaliation for him getting too close to deals with the EU, which was a major reason for Maidan in the first place.
The irony of Russia possibly causing Maidan by reining in their buddy too bluntly should be pointed out more, and alco be considered prophetic of the only increasingly stupid and blunt moves they took after Maidan.