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> before he gives the green light on an invasion And the reason why the USistan should entangle itself in that mess is ... what exactly?
by ur-whale 5y ago
> before he gives the green light on an invasion
And the reason why the USistan should entangle itself in that mess is ... what exactly?
- ModernMech 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur... The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances refers to three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. As a result, between 1994 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. Until then, Ukraine had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile If the US convinced Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons with the promise they would help fend off an invasion, and then proceeds to not help fend off an invasion, what do you think happens the next time the US asks a country to give up their nukes?
- ur-whale 5y agoThanks for this, that is a fair point, and I was not aware that these events had taken place. [EDIT]: Whatever happens to nukes that are "given up on". That's a lot of fissile material.