[mac_truck]

Because the USA told Ukraine to give up its enormous* stockpile of nuclear weapons, and in return we would defend the country from Russia.

Absolute nonsense...the United States did nothing of the kind.

[ctdonath2]

Then correct me.
Don’t just say I’m wrong.

My colloquial summary may be, strictly speaking, incorrect - sure. But that’s kinda the point of what happened: USSR collapsed, Ukraine was liberated, everyone realized a $#!^load of nukes were still still sitting there, Kiev gave them to Russia on promise of protection from Russia. A variant on the “hand over the gun and nobody gets hurt” trope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine