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How short-sighted of the Treaty writers, who should have recognized that nothing ever stays the same, as you cited above! So, in theory, we could be attacked by someone with whom we have a Treaty, and our hands would be tied by a piece of paper? :wow:
Yes, in theory and it has happened in the past. Remember the USSR and Germany signed a treaty and the following year, Hitler invaded Russia. North Vietnam signed the 1962 Geneva Accords agreeing to withdraw all their forces, they didn't, they kept them all in place while we withdrew ours. A lot of the nuclear treaties the USSR signed with us, they ignored the portions they wanted to. So it all depends on whom the piece of paper is between. So far, with Egypt anyway, both sides or all sides I should say have honored it. Oh, I almost forget, Remember Nevil Chamberlain and the treaty with Hitler he signed in 1939. There are tons of others, history is full of broken treaties. We, the U.S. are famous for signing treaties with the Indians and then breaking them and stealing more lands.