President Volodymyr Zelensky on Jan. 25 criticized Ukraine’s decision to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s without receiving strong security guarantees in return.
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I thought the guarantees were from Russia? It wasn’t the US asking Ukraine to disarm
The article itself didn’t specify, but another article it linked to definitely suggests it was Russia. Can’t really blame a writer for the Kyiv Independent for assuming a local reader would already know this, but I sure didn’t.
That makes it even more absurd. If my neighbor was encouraging me to disarm, I’d be suspicious as hell.
So, Putin ignores security guarantees. Okay. Thank for encouraging me to read more on the subject!
The lesson is no country can trust any other country to defend their sovereignty. Even as individual citizens, we can’t even trust our neighbors to act in their own best interests, let alone ours. There’s a good chance they’re dumb as fuck and will cheer the boot as it crushes their skull.