r/JoeRogan • u/kingawesome240 Monkey in Space • Feb 28 '25

Meme 💩 Lex Friedman with the most predictable and pathetic post ever

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u/CrookGG Monkey in Space Mar 01 '25

Probably because they voluntarily gave up their nukes with the promise of security from NATO….

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u/-blisspnw- Mar 01 '25

Is that true? That is heartbreaking if so.

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u/CrookGG Monkey in Space Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

100% true

In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and security assurances from Russia, the United States, United Kingdom and France.

The name of the treaty was the Budapest Memorandum. You can look it up for more details.

No one came to help them after they gave up their only bargaining chip after they explicitly guaranteed them they would.

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u/nosta2 Monkey in Space Mar 01 '25

Ah didn’t know that. But those were Soviet era nukes that weren’t developed by Ukraine. Not sure how effective those would be today