why not? ever hear of the cuban missile crisis? its kinda the same thing but in reverse. playing the devils advocate i could easily argue that if ukraine had nukes it would deter russia from using theirs. and its what forced the us to talk peace when reasonable heads got together. then the bargaining chip becomes "take the nukes away and we will let ukraine join nato"   the thing everyone needs to understand is that both countries have a pre-emptive strike strategy. which means that in order to save as many lives as possible the smartest move is to nuke first. they gave russia that option when they started hitting them with american made missiles. we wouldn't stand for that... im pretty sure we would have already nuked if a missile came in from mexico and hit one of our military bases in california or something like that.
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