Here’s one point that gets little notice about Ukraine.
\nAnd why weak leaders and leadership always causes problems.<\/p>\n
When the Soviet Union collapsed in ’91, Ukraine became a sovereign country again, and in return for handing over their nuclear weapons, accepted security deals from Russia and the United States.<\/em> The 1994 agreement, known as the Budapest Memorandum<\/a> had the U.S., U.K. and Russia guarantee<\/em><\/strong> Ukraine’s security for the nation signing on to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and giving up their nukes.<\/p>\n However, when Russia ‘annexed’ Crimea in 2014, anyone with 2 working brains cells knew that Putin’s word meant nothing.<\/p>\n Ukraine demanded the former Soviet Union and America respect its sovereignty and existing borders, but 28 later? With a senile puppet sitting in the oval office, and his lackies more concerned with gender equity and covid mandate BS, than energy independence, we get crap like this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s one point that gets little notice about Ukraine. And why weak leaders and leadership always causes problems. When the Soviet Union collapsed in ’91, Ukraine became a sovereign country again, and in return for handing over their nuclear weapons, accepted security deals from Russia and the United States. At the end of the Cold … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77935,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions\/77935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAt the end of the Cold War, Ukraine had the third biggest nuclear arsenal on Earth with over 5,000 nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n