{"id":1910547,"date":"2023-04-06T06:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-says-he-regrets-persuading-ukraine-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:21:41","slug":"bill-clinton-says-he-regrets-persuading-ukraine-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-says-he-regrets-persuading-ukraine-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Persuading Ukraine to Give up Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-clinton-says-he-regrets-persuading-ukraine-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0406\/13bd0fc5-a459-43cc-897b-14f7a0f28a70\/audio.mp3?length=2437965&#038;duration=203\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton, the former president of the United States, expressed his regret over persuading Ukraine to disarm its nuclear weapons during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed during an interview with the Irish outlet RTE on April 4th that he bears the responsibility for urging Ukraine to get rid of its nuclear stockpile under a tripartite agreement between Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow in 1994, following the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, which was then the third-largest nuclear power in the world, had agreed to give away their strategic nuclear collection to Russia for destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton believed that Russia wouldn&#8217;t have attempted to take over the Donbas region last February if his administration had not been steadfast in forcing Ukraine to remove nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,\u201d said Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed sadness that the 1994 compromise he helped create paved the way for a violent confrontation that has claimed hundreds of thousands of casualties on each side.<\/p>\n<h2>The West and Russia Convincing Ukraine to Give up Nuclear Deterrent<\/h2>\n<p>In January 1994, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Clinton signed a tripartite agreement with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk. The deal aimed to eliminate the Soviet-era nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was also party to the Budapest Memorandum, a related agreement later that year, along with the UK and Russia. It pledged that all signatories uphold Ukraine&#8217;s territorial integrity after it agreed to hand over its nuclear weapons to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>However, that promise was broken when Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and sections of Donbas in 2014 in the midst of a civil war between Kyiv and ethnic Russian separatists in the areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that President [Vladimir] Putin did not support the agreement President Yeltsin made never to interfere with Ukraine&#8217;s territorial boundaries\u2014an agreement he made because he wanted Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons,\u201d\u00a0said Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were af<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton has said that he regrets persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s. He told Irish outlet RTE on April 4 that he bears responsibility for encouraging Ukraine\u00a0to dispose of its nuclear warheads in a 1994 agreement between Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow after the end of the Cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":1910548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5855,4639,23661,10269,6991,7788],"class_list":["post-1910547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-clinton","tag-nuclear","tag-persuading","tag-regrets","tag-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}