Tag: Nuclear Weapons
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine held about one third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world at the time, as well as significant means of its design and production. In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in line with the Budapest Memorandum, but in the subsequent years, the country’s politicians privately regretted this decision. President Zelensky’s hints that the Budapest Memorandum could be revised are believed to have prompted Russia’s military response.
It’s so surreal how we’re closer to nuclear war than we’ve been since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it’s only continuing to escalate, and yet hardly anyone seems to notice and almost everyone is just going about their lives thinking their usual thoughts and having their usual conversations.
Deterrence works. Russia’s nukes are the only thing keeping the US from full-out war in Ukraine only six months after retreating from Afghanistan. So far, the unprecedented propaganda effort by the Ukraine and its helpers in the American mass media to drag the US and NATO directly into the fight has failed. But this struggle — for your mind space — is not over.
There’s no reason our planet needs to be dominated by any one single power structure, especially if doing so means risking complete annihilation.
