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Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security
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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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We did send them aid. And then the administration changed. My point is, I agree. You should never trust someone else with your own protection. Ukraine got a major economic boon from disarming. And soft protection but donating to the local police force doesn't really help in when someone decides to walk into your house anyway.
We pledged armies...
30 years ago Ukraine was the 3rd largest nuclear superpower in the world.
They didn't trade that for a couple crates of old ARs and malfunctioning body armor
Completely wiped out by the multiple Russian invasions...
They traded real security for comfort, and comfort always can be taken away.
It's almost impossible to get real.security, look at Iran.
Like, there's no rational reason for a sovereign country not to be developing their own nukes these days. And that's dangerous
Yeah, I don't disagree. That's what happened. They confused economic power with defense. Maybe if it wasn't putin they were trying to stop it would have been better for them.
They essentially traded a gun for a job and a restraining order. But also consider that the economic ties they gained by giving up their nukes. Bought them time and capital to build up their own military power enough to fight off Russia decades years later. They may not win this, but at the time the only thing they had were nukes.
Ukraine made the choice to try to build itself up more. I don't fault them for that. Geopolitics is a messy 4-D chess game.
You just can't really predict individual elements. When they declared independence putin was just a little shit stain and the billionaires in Russia were still fighting among each other to secure wealth and power.
At the time, Ukraine giving up it's nukes fast tracked it to the 1st world. Yeah, it sucks that it played out this way. But it wasn't on its face a bad plan.
If they had a 40 year old nuclear arsenal and matching tech they might not be at war right now, but they also probably wouldn't be Ukraine either.
Wildly incorrect...
Like just look at any map, Ukraine was the front line to Europe, think about how much military is built up in Texas because it's a border. Ukraine had a shit ton of all types of weaponry when the USSR dissolved
Weapony that the former USSR had claim to and would have been a justification for intervention. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know the nuances of the fall of the USSR. I was 3. But I can see enough to know that at the time, Ukraine made the smart play for the foreseeable future. In 1994. In hindsight, it should have held its nukes. In the moment, throwing down that sword gave it a seat at the world table.
Hate to break it to ya...
But after the dissolution of the USSR, there wasn't anymore USSR.
Russia had claim to those weapons, just like the nukes.
Ukraine kept the conventional equipment, and gave up the nukes back to Russia instead.
This isn't a hypothetical, this is what happened, and if you don't know what happened, it's hard to trust you on hypotheticals. Youre making them without all the facts
Look, I'm not really into how hot you're being about this. Little nitpicking like that doesn't strike me as good faith discussion. Especially when I haven't exactly been adverse to a few of your points. If you want to talk, cool, if you want to argue, scroll on.
Thank you.
"It's only nuclear war, why is everyone getting all worked up!?"