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TwilightZone

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2. They don't want nukes.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 11:04 PM
Nov 8
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in 1990 stated that Ukraine would not accept, acquire, or produce nuclear weapons, and its government declared on 24 October 1991 that Ukraine would be a non-nuclear-weapon state.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#:~:text=Budapest%20Memorandum,-Main%20article%3A%20Budapest&text=The%20Declaration%20of%20State%20Sovereignty,non%2Dnuclear%2Dweapon%20state.

Besides, that sounds like a horrible idea. Among myriad other reasons, Putin would use that as an excuse to use them on Ukraine or destroy infrastructure under false pretenses.

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