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Ukraine Blame Games

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

CHAPTER

The Budapest Memorandum on Nuclear Weapons

The Ukrainians didn't actually control those nuclear weapons at the time. There's no way that Ukraine, which has never been a very successful country economically, could have really afforded to maintain a nuclear stockpile. The real question you're asked is, like, why are we having this stupid war in whose fault is it? Is really what your question is about?

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