So when the Ukes build their nukes and deploy them on the Rukes, it’ll be ... acceptable.
The Ukes have no nukes, but when they make them next door to Russia it will likely be breaking news.
It might take them a while just to build back better.
The ukes are in an existential war.
The ukes had nukes in 1994.
The ukes gave up their nukes. The Rukes signed off on it, so did the US. The rukes violated that Budapest Agreement, now the US is trying hard to abrogate it.
The ukes have 15 nuke power plants. They had Chernobyl. They have fissionable material. They have the knowledge.
Now they have the motivation. To build nukes.
It took the A-Bomb kid a few months to design his nuke in his dorm room at school as a 3rd year physics student. https://www.amazon.com/Mushroom-bomb-John-Aristotle-Phillips/dp/0688033512
The ukes could probably do it in half that time.
When we were in an existential war, we dropped our nukes. Who are we to scorn them for doing the same thing — even the rukes say they’d do it under those conditions — especially when we were the ones who betrayed them?