The reality was that these were Russian warheads on Kazakh and Ukrainian soil, so it wasn't so much "giving up nukes" as "getting rid of foreign nuclear armed f

The reality was that these were Russian warheads on Kazakh and Ukrainian soil, so it wasn't so much "giving up nukes" as "getting rid of foreign nuclear armed forces". The units actually holding the genocide weapons were loyal to Moscow, so becoming the de-facto owners would have involved fighting with Russian nuclear armed military units. YOLO indeed.