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> They are stuck with Cold War thinking "it's either Russia or USA". While those countries were busy getting into EU and NATO in nineties, we (Ukraine) were st
by caskstrength 5y ago
> They are stuck with Cold War thinking "it's either Russia or USA".
While those countries were busy getting into EU and NATO in nineties, we (Ukraine) were stuck with president that pushed for what he called "multivector" international politics, which basically meant doing nothing in particular and trying to be friendly with everyone else (while plundering the country of course, since there was no external pressure for reforms, like wannabe-EU countries had). Looks like Romania and Poland were right all along, don't you think?
- durnygbur 5y agoI dare to claim that this would work out pretty well for Ukraine if they hadn't give away their nuclear weapons [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
- caskstrength 5y agoActually, nuclear weapons were too costly for Ukraine to afford during the nineties and were unfit to deter Russia (they were long range and could only threaten Russian far east), so threat of nuking Moscow was never viable deterrence even if we ignore the economical aspect.