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13/09/24
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Originally posted by pibroch:
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At that point the US had won the cold war and had the option of ensuring the nukes stayed in Ukraine. When the US foolishly decided otherwise Ukraine were already in the process of replacing the launch codes with their own. You can read about it in Mearsheimer's paper published at the time in Foreign Affairs - see his website.
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Dont be foolish......Russia would have stormed the Nuke sites then and taken control of them which would have advanced the invasion of the Ukraine by 20 years IMO.https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-trilateral-process-the-united-states-ukraine-russia-and-nuclear-weapons/