“PSA I reported an account because they have bad arguments in my opinion” seems like a terrible precedent of a post for this sub. Why are people upvoting this junk.

There was absolutely no way that the West was going to allow a fragile, Russia-leaning corrupt new state keep the nuclear weapons, and Russia wasn’t down for it either. It was never in the cards regardless of what Ukraine was granted “in return.” Just as Ukraine will not be allowed to develop the bomb now by either Russia or the West.

This is like saying that Iran is following the exact system envisioned by Mohammad because Khamenei is a scholar or whatever.

Wbat’s saddest of all is that the US is a one-party state in all the worst ways and a democracy in many of the wrong ways.