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Showing Original Post only (View all)30 yrs ago today: Ukraine disarmed itself voluntarily in exchange for security assurances from US, Britain and Russia [View all]
Shaun Pinner
@olddogua.bsky.social
December 5 1994, 30 years ago today Ukraine disarmed itself voluntarily of nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles in exchange for security assurances from the United States, Britain, and Russia.

December 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
@olddogua.bsky.social
December 5 1994, 30 years ago today Ukraine disarmed itself voluntarily of nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles in exchange for security assurances from the United States, Britain, and Russia.

December 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/olddogua.bsky.social/post/3lckbf3qqnc23
30 yrs later and we're about to sell them down the river to Russia.

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30 yrs ago today: Ukraine disarmed itself voluntarily in exchange for security assurances from US, Britain and Russia [View all]
Dennis Donovan
Dec 5
OP
The threat would have set up Ukraine for military intervention PDQ to prevent it spreading nuclear materials and weapons
Emrys
Dec 6
#18
Your position would see nuclear materials and weapons in the hands of even bigger crooks and bastards -
Emrys
Dec 6
#26
What would really be foolish is to imagine that Ukraine's position was strong enough at the time to attempt such a ploy.
Emrys
Dec 6
#31
While the leaders signed the documents they crossed their fingers behind their backs.
Jacson6
Dec 5
#5
No, but he had an Ukrainian girlfriend we helped to leave after Putin invaded.
sinkingfeeling
Dec 6
#23
Thanks to the Nunn-Lugar Act, and Ash Carter. The Budapest Memorandum meant that...
FailureToCommunicate
Dec 5
#8
You don't get my meaning. That sliver of land in the Kursk oblast isn't existential to the Russian regime's existence.
paleotn
Dec 6
#33