While President Clinton apparently blithely provided such guarantees to Belarus when it recently gave up former Soviet nuclear arms on its territory, he must be wary of assuming new, and arguably more callable, guarantees to states like Ukrainewithout taking the minimum steps necessary to preserve the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Tymoshenko, without getting approval from the cabinet, dragged Ukraine into a financial contract that forces the country to pay higher prices for gas than any other European country.