Posted on 10/17/2024 8:47:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Kiev has the capability to build a nuclear weapon "in a few weeks," a high-ranking Ukrainian official has told Bild, the German tabloid reported on Thursday after Vladimir Zelensky announced his atomic ambitions.
Ukraine needs either membership in NATO or nuclear weapons, Zelensky said on Friday in Brussels, arguing in favor of his "victory plan" to end the conflict with Russia.
This prompted Bild to reveal that a Ukrainian official involved in weapons procurement told them "a few months ago" that Kiev was willing to go nuclear.
"We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given, we will only need a few weeks to have the first bomb," the unnamed official said, according to the German tabloid, adding that the West should "think less about Russia's red lines and more about ours."
In his speech on Thursday, Zelensky claimed to have informed former - and possibly future - US President Donald Trump about Kiev's atomic aspirations.
"Speaking to Donald Trump, I told him: 'What is the way out for us?'Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and they will serve as protection, or we need to be in some kind of an alliance. We don't know any effective alliances except NATO," Zelensky said. He also claimed that Trump agreed with him.
Trump has made no mention of Zelensky's nuclear proposal, however. In the time since their meeting, he also made a case in an interview that nuclear weapons were the greatest threat to humanity and that he hoped to make a global deal on eventual denuclearization during his first term in the White House.
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that would be some october surprise.
Oh, joy.
What happens when you give idiots money
Russia could keep them from having nukes by going back to the old deal where Ukraine gave them up in return for Russia respecting its borders.
It would be a sure fire way for Ukraine to be eliminated
This clown in the Ukraine is getting amusing.
An exceedingly bad idea.
Ukraine wouldn’t be making these statements if they didn’t already have nukes.
Also, Trump would never have agreed that Ukraine needs nuclear weapons. Trump was most likely thinking to himself that he needs to get back in office as quickly as possible so he can have this clown tackled, shackled, and placed into the rubber room he needs to be in.
Trump wants to put an end to this madness and most importantly, extract America from any involvement in this clown show flirting with WW3..
Looks like Shoigu’s corrupt comrades in the MOD have been selling Russian nukes to Ukraine.
Oh, BS, it takes a huge industry to make a nuclear weapon, and Ukraine doesn’t have one.
Well, there you go. It's settled, then.
Ukraine can hit Moscow, too. Mutually assured destruction.
“Ukraine could have nuclear weapons within weeks -Bild”
So now we know why they want long-range missiles.
In any case, I hope Ukraine does try getting cute with nukes, as it will very quickly end the war there and Russia might also take the occasion to use them to use them on the load-mouth nearby countries that think they can be assholes because they’re nominally in NATO - they will soon a lean that a ‘two tier’ system exists for NATO members, and they’re on the losing side of that.
“Ukraine wouldn’t be making these statements if they didn’t already have nukes.”
Agree, Ukraine would NEVER lie.
Shoigu’s corrupt MOD buddies sold Russian nukes to Ukraine.
Ukraine can hit Moscow, too. Mutually assured destruction.
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