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The Budapest Memorandum was a way to force a potential* nuclear player and/or nuclear wildcard out of the game. When you see it for what it is, giving Ukraine
by blub 2y ago
The Budapest Memorandum was a way to force a potential* nuclear player and/or nuclear wildcard out of the game.
When you see it for what it is, giving Ukraine nuclear weapons is the last thing anyone (except internet posters) wants.
* They didn’t control the weapons, nor could they financially afford to maintain them.
- MrHamburger 2y agoControl is very relevant here. The hardest part of nuclear weapon - plutonium core - was there. The fact that you don't have access keys from electronics which controls explosives around the plutonium core is kind of non-issue for a state actor.
- asdf123qweasd 2y agoTrump wants everyone to get nuclear weapons. He wants a world of transactional big players and unreliable alliances with shakedowns. That is a world were everyone scrambles for a nuke, naturally. And pakistan is broke- you can get one there relatively cheap.