Hey, if you insist on being an idiot, be all you can be.
[QUOTE=BloodRed;2927271]Thank you.
The nuclear weapons were not under Ukrainian control because they didn't belong to Ukraine and were just stationed there. The nuclear codes were with Russia because they belonged to Russia.
Just like America has nukes in Turkey. They don't belong to Turkey, they belong to the you. S, they have the nuclear codes. Similar to the nukes that were stationed in Kazakhstan and Belarus. They belonged to Russia and were returned to Russia by those 2 countries.
Russia has or is going to place nukes in Belarus. They will be Russian nukes that will just be stationed in Belarus. Amazing that is hard to understand for some here.[/QUOTE]The US and Turkey are two different countries. Russia and Belarus today are also different countries (on paper at least). In the Soviet times, however, Russia and Ukraine weren't different countries. They were two republics that belonged to one country, the USSR. Again: The Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic did NOT controlled the nuclear codes in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that controlled the codes everywhere inside the state.
Then the USSR went Kaput. All former Soviet republics became independent states.
The 1991 treaty between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in Belovezhskaya Pushcha didn't discuss the ownership of Ukraine's nukes. In 1994, Ukrainian President Kravchuk was vehemently against transferring nuclear weapons to Russia. Interestingly, it was Bill Clinton who threatened and pushed him into submission. Hope he's proud of himself today.
But Clinton never tried to argue that Russia was somehow a legal nukes owner. Hell, Russia itself didn't try to claim it was a legal owner at the time. So again, who am I to tell you not to be an idiot? Go for it.