the recent case of America responding to Russia denouncing the breaking of its promise not to expand NATO eastward with “Ha ha, you should have gotten it in writing!”
I thought the response was more like: “this never happened, you just made that up”. You can’t break a promise you never made in the first place.
Is the concept of honor so alien that you consider it “incredible” when men show it?
It would be hard to make it work in democracy. A politician may promise something, and get replaced by another politician later. Should the latter honor the promises made by the former? (Is Biden required to build the wall, just because Trump promised it?) The entire point of democratic elections is that people can replace the politicians they no longer want.
I thought the response was more like: “this never happened, you just made that up”. You can’t break a promise you never made in the first place.
It would be hard to make it work in democracy. A politician may promise something, and get replaced by another politician later. Should the latter honor the promises made by the former? (Is Biden required to build the wall, just because Trump promised it?) The entire point of democratic elections is that people can replace the politicians they no longer want.