• Murvel@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ukraine once had nukes and gave them away in a bid to ease tension with their neighbors and the west

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      1 year ago

      There were Soviet nukes placed in Ukraine with a preplanned trajectory to hit the west and needed authorization from the CPSU in Moscow to be fired.

      Ukraine never had nukes. They didn’t have the ability to maintain and control the arsenal that was placed there.

      • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
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        Tbf they probably could’ve hacked them into something usable but by that time they would’ve been invaded by a coalition of the US and Russia. America wanted all nukes under control of their puppet regime in Russia.