Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Would keeping their nukes have prevented US-backed coups in 2004 and 2014? If not, then it’s for the best that they gave them up before the Banderites took power.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

very good point; mevermind

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe? Whether a country has nukes it could use to retaliate has to be part of the "should we coup/color revolution this country?" calculus.

[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

One might argue that we couped the entire Warsaw Pact.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Nothing to argue, this is what happened. Literally all former warsaw treaty countries, sans Belorussia, had western backed coups.

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