L’Ucraina possedeva i nuclei

Just like all ex-Soviet republics owned the leftover Soviet stuff. Another point, this was the first time in world history that nuclear weapons were left after a union broke up so there was no preceding rule for russia magically holding the ownership.

russia as a internationally aknowledged state is not the Soviet Union aknowledged way back (the culture is the same but not the legal entity). They even had to make special rules that allowed russia to take the place of Soviet Union, although that was a mistake as we have now seen… So claiming now that “the nukes were russians” is just wrong on every level. russia held the keys but the physical things were the property of Ukraine.

Russia actually tried that argument during negotiations. (they’re ours, just give them to Russia)

Russia lost. They had to pay Ukraine for the plutonium in the nukes.

Unfortunately, the cheeto’s inner circle (and their millions of supporters and enablers among ordinary American voters) plus the Russians willingly dig into the malign reality about how *a falsehood flies while the truth comes limping after it*.

This overtly Russocentric lie about how the Budapest Memorandum treated Soviet-era nukes is already out of the bag and is well on its way to fulfill the malign objective of letting 140 million+ “victimized” Russians and their unholy alliance of simps worldwide ѕhіt on and shout down the true victims, 40 million+ Ukrainians.

People think ex-soviet is russia, they just changed name?

The MAGAs love to say the USSR wasnt Russia, and tidays Russia is our friend because they werent the USSR who was our enemy, now the USSR weapons were russias, they are so dumb