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... more qualified people weigh in on other matters, but I was under the impression w.r.t. Ukraine that

  1. Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons. The USSR had nuclear weapons. Ukraine's claim to those is unclear at best. Russia's claim to them is also unclear, but rather a lot stronger since the USSR was in many important ways merely the Russian Empire v. 2.0

  2. In the treaties governing the dissolution of the USSR, Russia recognised the sovereignty of Ukraine, and Ukraine in exchange specifically guaranteed that they would not bring NATO or any other hostile empire to Russia's borders.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam
by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 12:38:29 AM EST

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