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Trump has stated he will cut American aid to Ukraine, which makes a majority of total aid. Recently Zelensky stated that if Ukraine's only hope for sovereignty is its own nuclear arsenal, they will build it.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Even if they have the ability to build one, and do so without Russia turning the facility where they're building it into rubble with hypersonic missiles, they would need dozens to have full MAD type protection.

Does Ukraine even have a missile system capable of carrying that kind of payload as far as Moscow?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

Maybe not anymore, but they had a few orbital rockets:

They definitely had the talent to do so, but realistically they couldn't build one today :(

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

No. Nuclear weapons should not exist.

Kurzgesagt recently made a video on the nuclear arms race. The end of the race was when the guy who invented the hydrogen bomb invented a bomb that could destroy the entire planet. The bomb wouldn't even need to be dropped onto your enemy. It could be built inside your own country and detonated any time at all to end humanity. He thought of it as the biggest deterrent to war. Nobody else did. Politicians and military leaders threw out the idea entirely. Why would anyone detonate a nuclear bomb inside their own country??

The size of that bomb pales in comparison to the size of all nuclear weapons in existence today. We built that bomb. It's just not one giant bomb, but split into 12,000 parts and spread over the world. Is it any different? If you cannot justify building a nuclear weapon that would destroy your own country to destroy another, how can you justify building any nuclear weapons at all?

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[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

I know nothing about the subject but doesn't it require a massive infrastructure investment and time that Ukraine can't afford right now? I mean even Zaporizhzhia is controlled by the invaders, though I'm not sure if it's there where they would produce fissile materials. Furthermore, Ukraine's remaining allies are staunch anti-nuclear proliferation.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

Who's going to supply them with uranium and parts? The French? lol

[-] zante@slrpnk.net -1 points 9 hours ago

I though he quit comedy

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world -3 points 11 hours ago

Only Usamericans can think that nuclear weapons are a serious option to use.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/europe/putin-nuclear-warns-west-missile-strikes-ukraine-intl-latam/index.html

He's giving better nukes to NK in exchange for support, and there's Intel he's giving some to Iran as well.

He won't stop until he is stopped, we should have learned that by now.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

MAD doctrine. And it works it seems.

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