re: Let's be clear about this: Russia is invading Ukraine right now

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Let's be clear about this: Russia is invading Ukraine right now

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If Ukraine had retained hers, Crimea would still belong to them.



In reality Ukraine would never have retained their nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Budapest Memorandum was a face saving agreement to bolster Ukrainian sovereignty/independence. The Russians in 1991 believed that Ukraine and Belarus would be tied to them through the Commonwealth of Independent States, had the Ukrainians decided to try to keep their weapons in 1991 war between Russia and Ukraine would have been the likely result and the US would have backed our then "ally" Russia, as we were deathly afraid of nuclear proliferation. That was the main policy goal, not the independence of these new countries or containing Russia.

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