Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9912794

While a US commitment that NATO would not expand towards Russia was made during talks with the Soviets in 1990, and remains a topic of heated dispute, no undertaking was written into the treaty on German reunification.

  • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Yeah. The whole reason there’s a war right now is Russia ignoring its own promises.

    Maybe Ukraine should get its nukes back.

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      8 months ago

      Ukraine never had effective control of the nuclear warheads, although they had physical control and probably could have made them unusable, but not fire them without some serious reverse-engineering and possibly rebuilding large parts.

      • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Just a touch of rhetoric, I’m really only pointing out how hard it is to deal with Russia in good faith