After inheriting a vast nuclear arsenal post-Soviet Union collapse, Ukraine chose to relinquish it, motivated by financial and geopolitical factors. T
EU leaders managed to parry Hungary’s attempt to derail their Ukraine summit last week, but diplomats are now bracing for a bare-knuckled brawl over Russia sanctions this week.
Poland has responded to the proposal by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to hold a referendum in Hungary on Ukraine's membership in the European Union, informs Polish Foreign Minister RadosÅ‚aw Sikorski on X.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited the worlds third-largest nuclear arsenal. However, the country chose to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees under the Budapest Memorandum.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said NATO membership for Ukraine is out of the question. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Szijjártó was asked where Hungary stands on security guarantees for Ukraine and a possible NATO membership.
When the former Soviet republics declared independence in the early 1990s, Ukraine became the owner of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
So if the west does abandon Ukraine, game theory suggests that the world should expect a proliferation of nuclear powers. Each will need to learn, as Russia and the US have, to live on the threshold of diastrous confrontation. But research shows that establishing a situation of reduced risk takes time.
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As the Trump administration works to end the conflict, it should keep in mind why the fate of Ukraine matters here in America.