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Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe? Whether a country has nukes it could use to retaliate has to be part of the "should we coup/color revolution this country?" calculus.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One might argue that we couped the entire Warsaw Pact.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Nothing to argue, this is what happened. Literally all former warsaw treaty countries, sans Belorussia, had western backed coups.