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> Ukraine and other former soviet republics voluntarily gave them up after the breakup of the USSR.

And no country will ever make the same mistake again. Because the west promised to protect them from aggression. But when the time came to do just that - everyone involved dusted off their copy of Budapest memorandum and handed it over to the lawyers.

Sorry for digression. Carry on.




For sure. If the Russian federation breaks up into a bunch of independent states we will have a huge problem.

It was not very fair from civil war already, with the aborted coup. Could you imagine if the Wagner group became a nuclear power??




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