President Volodymyr Zelensky on Jan. 25 criticized Ukraine’s decision to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s without receiving strong security guarantees in return.
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As we’ve seen, “guarantees” from the U.S. mean absolutely nothing when someone like Trump is in the White House. Ukraine should have kept the nukes.
I thought the guarantees were from Russia? It wasn’t the US asking Ukraine to disarm
The lesson is no country can trust any other country to defend their sovereignty. Even as individual citizens, we can’t even trust our neighbors to act in their own best interests, let alone ours. There’s a good chance they’re dumb as fuck and will cheer the boot as it crushes their skull.