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Ukraine Blame Games

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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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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