• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Any nation that wants to keep their sovereignty needs nukes. Agreements like the Budapest Memorandum were a mistake for some of the countries involved (Ukraine).

    • vega208@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Lol, I wonder when Ukrainians will connect the dots that they’re in this position solely because they put their faith into western powers that didn’t deliver on their side of the bargain.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Ukraine did not have the infrastructure at the time to be able to even safely store the nuclear weapons they had. The nukes weren’t going to stay either way at the time.

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      3 months ago

      This is the correct answer.

      The only thing that keeps imperialism at bay is mutually-assured destruction.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I mean, I have a chaotic solution we might try. Let’s simply…reverse the Budapest Memorandum! Let’s just hand Ukraine a few hundred thermonuclear warheads, with launchers and launch codes and say, “here, go have fun!”

      “The president has announced…that we have reversed the Budapest Memorandum…”

      :D