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#TodayILearned that when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Ukraine inherited the world's third largest nuclear arsenal with some 1,700 warheads.

In 1994, #Ukraine gave up its nukes, transferring them to #Russia, in exchange for security guarantees from the US, UK, and Russia.

With Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine, Russia is considered to be in violation of this agreement, and some think it was a mistake for Ukraine to give up it's nukes.

#TIL
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Low Information Voter 1y ago

Its always a mistake to give up nukes.

Every country that has done so has become a cautionary tale for others.

Except Brazil, but maybe the curse is catching up to them now...

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Marakesh ð“…¦ 1y ago

It seems similar to what happens to people in countries that let governments take their guns away...

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Low Information Voter 1y ago

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Marakesh ð“…¦ 1y ago

The book I'm reading ("The World: A Family History of Humanity" by Simon Sebag Montefiore) curiosly states "Qaddafi, fearful that he was next for the Saddam treatment, surrendered his nuclear programme: he was welcomed into the western family."

How can he say Qaddafi "was welcomed into the western family" when, in the same book he notes: "On 20 October, near Sirte, NATO got him. Qaddafi, wounded and hiding in a drainage pipe, was captured, wounded in the stomach, then, filmed on a smartphone, sodomized with a bayonet and finally shot dead. Watching the video of the tormented tyrant, Putin saw himself: ‘You could end up losing Russia. Qaddafi thought he’d never lose Libya but the Americans tricked him.’ So this was American freedom: ‘All the world saw him being killed, all bloodied. Is that democracy?’" 🤨