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We Had A Deal!!!

Published by digby on March 1, 2025

He didn’t clip the best moment which starts at 4:05:

Just off the very top, nobody seems to remember this but at the the close of the Cold War, Ukraine was in possession of 1,900 nuclear warheads. They had one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear arms in the entire in the entire world. They did not directly control them because they were Soviet controlled warheads that were stationed there during the the last days of the Soviet Union.

But the Ukrainian people are pretty resourceful and holding on to 1,900 nuclear warheads is a pretty fucking valuable card to have if we’re talking about cards. They chose to give them up.

Why did Ukraine choose to give up these Warheads? Because in 1994 the United States of America signed a guarantee of Ukrainian sovereignty and security against aggression.

We had a deal, we had a fucking deal with these people already!

And we we convinced them to give up their nuclear warheads and they did and and now all of a sudden that’s just gone !

It was called the Budapest Memorandum:

The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with U.S. Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance prohibited Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.” As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.

At the time Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. They were the only country with such an arsenal to ever give them up. And they will be the last. Trump has made sure of that. Certainly no one will ever believe that the United States will have their backs again.

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