Yeah, probably. But it's not as if they had a lot of good options during those years. They had to jumpstart their post-soviet economy. The west did a great job

Yeah, probably. But it's not as if they had a lot of good options during those years. They had to jumpstart their post-soviet economy. The west did a great job dangling the right amount of carrots in exchange. Then there were the technical challenges of reverse engineering and removing Russian command and control system to be able to utilize those nukes.