[Carry_Okie]

Like our nuclear weapons, no one person can launch them. Those required authorization fro the Soviet Union’s leader.

Whether or no, Bush I made a point of getting them out of Ukraine, thus indicating intent.

[Alberta's Child]

I wish Freepers would stop posting that silly nonsense about Ukraine “giving up its nukes” in 1991.

There is simply no way on God’s green earth that the U.S., UK and France would ever have allowed another nuclear-armed country to be established in Europe at the time — especially one as dysfunctional and corrupt as Ukraine.

[Robert DeLong]

Again, that had no affect on Ukraine's ability to neuter Putin or Russia. For they were useless to them. Just for the record it was Clinton that was involved in that in 1994. Bush I served from 1989-1992.

U.S. President Clinton, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kravchuk after signing the Trilateral Statement in Moscow on 14 January 1994.

The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises four substantially identical political agreements signed at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The four memoranda were originally signed by four nuclear powers: Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.