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by pydry 296 days ago
>Fair doesn't exist in international politics

Tell it to the people caterwauling about the budapest memorandum, not me.

>it's extremely obvious that handing back the Soviet nukes they had possession of was a mistake.

It's the furthest possible thing from obvious. Ukraine couldn't maintain the weapons and was in desperate need of economic assistance it would never have gotten if it kept the nukes.

Moreover, if they tried to keep them Russia would likely just have taken them or rendered them unusable by force and we likely would have supported that.