And why did they return those nukes. Can you answer that simple question? I know the answer BTW, do you?
No access to launch codes, and no access to required maintenance skills. Even the US said shipping them to the US would be pointless, too, because the US didn’t have that either.
They never had those nukes. Russia still had them, even though on Ukraine soil.
The whole “if we had not given them back” stuff is just wrong. They never had them.