"It was necessary to exchange (nuclear arms) for real security guarantees, and at the time, that was only NATO. And to be honest, today, it is only NATO," President Zelensky said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Foglio.

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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  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    191·
    8 hours ago

    As we’ve seen, “guarantees” from the U.S. mean absolutely nothing when someone like Trump is in the White House. Ukraine should have kept the nukes.

    • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      I thought the guarantees were from Russia? It wasn’t the US asking Ukraine to disarm

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        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.