Brief History of Ukraine, Russia and Nukes

 

I find the Budapest memorandum in which Ukraine got rid of its arsenal of nukes as long as there was a security guarantee against invasion the most interesting. They got (Ukraine) a commitment from Moscow they will never invade. They forgot the history of Moscow and believed them. They figured the stock pile of nukes will not do them any good because they did not see any possibility of using them and destroying a part of the whole world or anyone in particular.

Russia as Russia or the Soviet Union or Russian Federation of today has never kept its word but it's been a snake dark pit of lies.

Why?

They have always been ruled by one man only with no hope of changing him except by death. Just like today. One man even makes the military decision like in Hitler's time Remember? His Commandants and Generals criticized that behind his back but would never tell him. They went where he told them even if meant their own destruction even though some saw the light and escaped like in Russia now but very few men in power.

I'm afraid it is to take the people of Russia and Ukraine to end this or even Putin could end it by making another fatal wrong decision that forces NATO or the U.S. to get the Russians out and get rid of Putin. Any nation that has Nuclear weapons will tell you that the only thing that works about nukes and politics is the bluff and intimidation factor. Once you use it (or say you will but don't),  you won't have any more nukes because you won't be there.

(above is Adam's opinion and not anyone else's)

Here is a brief recap of their relations in the 20th century:

1918-1922 — Ukraine declares independence in 1918 during a conflict fought by multiple countries and armies over several years. Its independence and sovereignty receive the international recognition that year at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Soviet forces work to overthrow independent Ukraine. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is founded in 1921 and Ukraine is subsumed into the Soviet Union the following year.

1932 and 1933 — A famine caused by Stalin’s policy of collectivization kills millions of people, mainly ethnic Ukrainians in a country that is known as the bread basket of the Soviet Union. The disaster is known as the Holodomor.

1939-1944 — The Soviet Union annexes Western Ukraine. Later, Nazi Germany and the Axis powers occupy the country during World War II. Throughout the period Ukraine suffers devastation.

1991 — The Soviet Union is terminated via a treaty. Ukraine becomes independent and begins a transition to a market economy. It also comes into possession of a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons that had belonged to the Soviet Union.

1994 — Under the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gives up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for a commitment from Moscow “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.”