Ukraine should had kept their nuclear weapons. In retrospect, they probably needed a strongman. Someone like Alexander Lukashenko to keep things intact. Instead Ukraine had too deal with corruption and it’s still a major issue there, obviously.
They may not have had any control over that, but they had control over the conventional weapons they sold. I don’t believe Russia itself left nukes behind in the new independent states created when the USSR broke up; if they didn’t remove them, they left Russian troops at the facilities.
From what I heard, Bill Clinton urged Ukraine to get rid of the nukes based there when he was president, telling Ukraine that he would protect them.
Big mistake.
“..Ukraine had too deal with corruption and it’s still a major issue there,..”
Is corruption in Ukraine as bad as it is in Washington, DC? I submit our government and it’s leaders (Biden and family) are much worse. Where did the billions of dollars of pandemic and stimulus money disappear to?? The Biden money laundering, influence peddling, etc. , the jillions poured into FDA, CDC, big pharma?? How do politicians moving to WDC become millionaires??