• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Ukraine never had control of those nukes. They got a good deal to have them moved into Russian territory, but if Ukraine had wanted to keep the nukes, they’d have been attacking Russian soldiers to get them, and wouldn’t have had the launch codes. Ukraine got the best deal they could under the circumstances, especially since the US wasn’t particularly concerned about Ukraine at the time.