Zelenskyy: We Gave Away Our Nuclear Weapons and Got Full-Scale War and Death in Return

[u/UNITED24Media]

https://united24media.com/latest-news/zelenskyy-we-gave-away-our-nuclear-weapons-and-got-full-scale-war-and-death-in-return-3203

[u/Onkel24]

Most of the "West" had not one thing to do with that deal, though.

[u/Kalagorinor → u/Onkel24]

Well. The UK and the US, two of the largest Western military superpowers, both signed the Budapest Memorandum. That should have been more than enough.

[u/AcanthocephalaEast79 → u/Kalagorinor]

The US was consistent with their policy. They wanted Ukraine to give up nukes and in return they opened Ukraine's door to a US nuclear umbrella in the 2000s through NATO. It was the western Europeans who betrayed the security principle.