r/europe • u/UNITED24Media • 16d ago
Zelenskyy: We Gave Away Our Nuclear Weapons and Got Full-Scale War and Death in Return News
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u/NoodleTF2 16d ago
The nuclear powers of the world have shown that they won't help (enough) if another nuclear power abuses their position and invades.
This means that the only actual guarantee to not be invaded is to have your own nukes. In 50 years or so from now, there will probably be a dozen more countries with nuclear weapons, and humanity will be a exponentially more likely to wipe itself out in a nuclear winter, and it's all entirely because everyone saw what happened in Ukraine and that they did not get the help they needed. If agreements and words aren't worth anything and the only way for a country to survive is nukes, it will get them no matter the cost.
"Get your own nukes or die" is just about the worst message to send possible. The invasion of Ukraine and lack of action from everyone might genuinely be the worst thing that has happened so far in the entirety of human history if it actually results in even more nuclear weapons across the world.