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Gorbachev's dead now and look who sits in his place. I'm not so sure such a treaty would still be respected anyway. As as for who sits in Reagan's place...
by cedws 20d ago
Gorbachev's dead now and look who sits in his place. I'm not so sure such a treaty would still be respected anyway. As as for who sits in Reagan's place...
- bearjaws 20d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum All you need to know about making deals with Russia.
- RobKohr 20d agoYeah, Ukraine should have held onto its nukes. But it got a lovely piece of paper to protect itself with.
- s1artibartfast 20d agoeasy to say at a distance. It didnt have full control and had the nuclear powers pushing them to. We dont know if Ukraine would be a state today if they refused
- notthemessiah 20d agoThe only reason why Putin is there now is because we strongly backed Boris Yeltsin despite his unpopularity, we interfered with the 1996 election in order to prevent Communist Party challenger Gennady Zyuganov from winning re-election amidst disastrous liberalization policies and lowering life expectancy, and then Boris Yeltsin ended up appointing Putin, who did war crimes in Chechnya in an effort to appear tough as a strongman against the separatist threat. In 2001, the NYT had op-eds from Thomas Friedman that were "Rootin' for Putin". Had we not interfered, we probably would have had another Gorbachev.