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Ep 335: A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The War on the Nuclear Weapons

The referendum won with a 90% margin, 90 to 10. By the way, there is a part of Ukraine that is called Donbas where there are more Russian speakers in the rest of Ukraine. After the USSR, after Russia and the US, there was a ton of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil. In 1994, an agreement was worked out, which is called the Budapest Memorandum,. Where all those nuclear weapons were to be given to Russia. And we now know with the benefit of hindsight that it didn't work out well.

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