You should really spend some time researching the historical record regarding Ukraine’s machinations around this issue. You don’t seem well versed at all.
The notion that independent Ukraine had a right to keep Soviet nuclear missiles housed on its territory is absurd and contradicted multiple times by the historical record.
https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL(1994)054-e
You should really spend some time researching the historical record regarding Ukraine’s machinations around this issue. You don’t seem well versed at all.
***I’m well versed enough. They HONORED the Budapest Agreement, we are abrogating it, and the Rukes VIOLATED it by invading twice. What more is there? Some sort of pootypoot puffin’ appeasement stuff to read, no doubt.
The notion that independent Ukraine had a right to keep Soviet nuclear missiles housed on its territory is absurd
***It was not so absurd per the Budapest Agreement. What is absurd is that they HONORED it, and the Ruskies INVADED when those nukes were removed. If there is absurdity, it is in how yuge a mistake it was for them to give up nukes.
and contradicted multiple times by the historical record.
***The historical record is gonna tell us that they had no right to keep nukes? The same historical record that shows the rukes saying they have the right to first-strike the ukes with nukes, or even first-strike NATO? The same historical record that shows the Ukes HONORING that agreement and the Rukes VIOLATING it? Perhaps even the same historical record that tells US that WE never had the right to develop and drop nukes during OUR existential war? That’s some historical record thingie ya got goin’ there.