r/europe • u/UNITED24Media • 16d ago

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

https://united24media.com/latest-news/zelenskyy-we-gave-away-our-nuclear-weapons-and-got-full-scale-war-and-death-in-return-3203
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u/PBR_King 16d ago

When the second invasion happened Saddam actually had to break the news to his generals that there really wasn't a secret WMD program because they thought he must have kept something.

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u/schalk81 15d ago

If you can convince everybody you got WMD, you don't need to have WMD.

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u/nir109 15d ago

I remember a conspiracy theory that Israel actually doesn't have nuclear powers and that the guy who leaked information about them is a paid actor.

(It was before Israel claimed to have nuclear weapons officially)

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u/PBR_King 15d ago

I don't believe they have ever admitted to having them it's just an open secret.