Originally Posted by
Gargleblaster
fdr is on to something. Denmark and Sweden could leave the Copenhagen Convention of 1857 as well as article 282 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, and voila, the Danish straits are not international waters anymore. So if you want in, or out of the Baltic you'll have to transit Danish or Swedish national waters.
UNCLOS still has provisions that apply. Russia and China appear to consider that they can gain the benefit of a UN rule while they act with impunity to break the same rule sets. To date, that assumption has been valid, as our collective leadership does not have enough backbone to be classified as vertebrates. Russia lied on their agreements with Ukraine in respect to the removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine, that is one of those matters that certainly has some ready remedies to be applied, Ukraine should ask for and receive replacements for those weapons they gave up. That would stop the diatribe from Russia. Doesn't have to be provided into Ukraine, consider it as Dial-a-bucket, the Uber of nuclear weapon lend-lease, for which I would think it perfectly appropriate to take some petty cash out of the frozen Russian funds to pay for the lease costs from the western country. The UK and the USA are the ones that have an exposure for their part in that treaty.
- Minsk Agreement, December 30, 1991
- Lisbon Protocol, May 23, 1992
- Massandra Accords, Trilateral Statement on January 14, 1994
- Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances on December 5, 1994
Russia's perfidy of 2014 and 2022 is of quite a different order compared to December 7th 1941. It is arguably about the same level of deceit and dishonouras they received with Operation Barbarossa.