How President Clinton Disarmed Ukraine |
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Unlike most of the videos released this year, this video doesn't have footnotes. That's because the script for this video was written before I started footing them. All the sources I use in the video are listed below, and I will try to get footnotes ready for the supercut of this series. But deciphering my script and exactly where I got every bit of info in my notes is gonna take some time.
Primary Sources
Yuri Kostenko, Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History, Second Expanded Edition, (2023)
James A. Baker, III and Thomas M. DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War & Peace, 1989-1992 (1995)
John Mearsheimer, “The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent,” Foreign Affairs, (June 1, 1993)
Roman Popadiuk, The Leadership of George Bush: An Insider’s View of the Forty-First President (2009)
Jack Matlock, Jr., Autopsy of an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)
Boris Yeltsin, Midnight Diaries, (2000)
Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, (2011)
George Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (1998)
Secondary Sources
Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, (2015)
Dimitri K. Simes, “America and the Post-Soviet Republics”, Foreign Affairs, June 1, 1992 www.foreignaff...
McGeorge Bundy, William J. Crowe, JR., and Sidney Drell, “Reducing Nuclear Danger”, Foreign Affairs, March 1, 1993 www.foreignaff...
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Two simple but powerful rules of life that must always be followed.
1. Never ever go ass to mouth
2. Never ever give up your nukes.
Though no exceptions exist for the first rule I would say the exception for the 2nd was South Africa, seeing the corrupt mess the country turned into it is definitely for the best they dismantled their nukes.
I vehemently and categorically oppose your first rule.
True. See what happened to Libya? 😅
Only #2 is an absolute rule
@@thecoin5394I mean, people say this, but Venezuela or Syria don't have nukes and the US never invades them. There are lots of regimes that exist that the US and NATO would rather not, but they persist anyway.
Also. I love how everyone forgets that Gaddafi was a vicious tyrant whose OWN PEOPLE murdered him. The West did the morally right thing in helping the rebels.
Moscow after its communist empire collapsed: my former vassals still need to obey me
Poor Western propagandist 😅
Ukraine will be like Prussia. They already lost 1/5 of their territories. Ukraine wicked nationalism is a death sentence to Ukrainian statehood .
The Russian bots have already arrived...
They always do. They have to get those Rubles before it is worth less than toilet paper. 😅😅😅
And what are you supposed to be @derpasaurus_rex6919 paid and sponsored by CIA and kiev? 😅
@@EarthForcessaid by a country who cry for west help, you wouldn't last long without those sweet sweet Dollars, speaking of worthless, isn't Nato still trying to use Russian frozen assets to fund Ukraine? Hmmm
@@EarthForces well why nato wants to use Russian frozen asset then?
@@EarthForces you're nothing without a dollar boy, your hryvnia has no value without loan.
I did not know these details. Crazy.
I think the idea of Ukraine remaining a nuclear power is sort of a revisionist fantasy.
It was simply too expensive to maintain them, and the problems it would cause would be numerous.
There were so many problems with it.
Yeah, and also the nukes they did have in Ukraine were meant for long range attacks (since the USSR's targets were in the West or the USA) so even if they could have kept the nukes they could only fire them in the middle of Siberia in the current war.
Correct, the only real thing they could do with a nuclear weapons program is to sell material to other actors. That would’ve been disastrous had such a corrupt country been able to do that.
Yeah true, having a underfunded rusty old nuclear weapons in your country is not a great idea
Yeah, if I remember correctly, Ukraine was even happy to give them up, since they simply didn't have the resources to maintain them. That makes it more dangerous to keep them than to give them up.
People always look at these things with 2020 goggles. Never understanding the vastly different context at the time.
Ukraine might be leaning towards the west now, but they could have easily become a pariah authoritarian state as become a liberal democracy.
Besides the practical concerns of maintaining (and being able to use) nuclear weapons, it was 100% in the interests of the west to de arm Ukraine at the time.
It was a wise thing for Ukraine to give up nukes back then:
- maintaining nukes are costly. Ukraine needed international funds to restructure its economy.
- there is no support facility (uranium enrichment facility to weapon grade uranium)
- command codes were in control of Moscow.
Do you seriously think it would be impossible for Ukraine to hack the system when they have physical access to it?
@@randomchannel-px6ho If they did it, they would be hit diplomatically and more then likel economically with sanctions. On top of that, Ukraine needed money to recreat complite Soviet nuclear industry to support nukes, which they did not have. Simple put, from internal and external perspective, Ukraine was not in position to keep nukes and they themselves new it.
@@aleksaradojicic8114 And how much will it cost to rebuild Ukraine now? Also Ukraine have the technical expertise, have uranium and can easily construct facilities to build nuclear weapons. Most likely they are building nuclear weapons in secret.
@@aleksaradojicic8114 youtube deleted another comment I left
I'm not revising hostory arguing Ukraine would have ever made the choice to clinge onto the weapons facing US pressure. Neverthelesd I think what has happened to Ukraine will further inspire nuclear proliferation by states like Iran and Saudi Arabia as it's a perfect demonstration that without a nuclear deterence you are fair game in the world ultimately
@@Zyzyx442 How much would cost if Ukraine turned into North Korea because world sanctioned them for trying to get nukes (and no they are not building one for sure)?
0:01 "Sun almost rises" might have been Papa's first working title but I think Gertrude and Scott talked him out of it.
There was no feasible way for Ukraine to ever keep their nukes.
Very thorough and detailed. Excellent work. Fascinating. All of this is virtually unknown in the West.
Upon Ukraine's 1991 independence, over 1,700 Soviet nuclear weapons were left on its territory. Ukraine never possessed operational control of the weapons, and all were removed to Russia under a 1994 agreement in exchange for security assurances.
In the event, those security assurances turned out to be an illusion. Merely a bluff. And Putin called it. Does Ukraine represent a vital security interest to the US? Probably not. Putin moved against Ukraine with force, violating the post-war general principle that disputes should be resolved by negotiation rather than force. Will this embolden him to recapture the other republics, in particular the Baltic(NATO) states? That's the question. The US and Europeans have chosen to throw money at the current problem, hoping for a stalemate and a negotiated settlement. Time will tell.
Big fan of your channel. You look just like my good buddy JD.
I’m more amazed he denuclearized Ukraine, but never bothered denuclearizing Russia itself.
"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose..."
It is Ukraine. Those nukes would have ended up on the black market by 1998
Thank you for this informative video. I didn't know the history behind Ukrainian nuclear disarmament (besides the fact that they did give them up after the dissolution of the USSR). Hopefully, the war will end soon.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
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Would've been cool if part of the security agreement was the construction and maintenance of a joint US/Rus base in Ukriane at a missile storage facility in order to prove that no nukes were hidden, stored, or being built.
Thxs 😒
This the worse mistake ukraine ever and subtracting the military making it smaller weaker that will cause big time serveral years later 2014 on wards
The denuke made them not a threat and a weak military made the vonurable to russia today
They never had the option of keeping them.
They were inoperable and once the ussr fell the us and Russia weren’t ever going to let them keep them.
nuclear disarmament was part of Ukraine's birth certificate of its statehood, the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine.
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Hmm, wonder how this will affect Ukraine in the future. Oops... 😉
Nuclear weapons in the hands of the fanatics of the failed Austrian painter: that was too much even for Clinton
what about all of the fissile material at chernobyl plant?
Ukraine has 5 nuclear power plants. The fuel used in them is not easily capable of being made into nuke material without everyone else in the world noticing. Same with Iran.
First
"The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons." - Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, Kyiv, July 16, 1990
It was the initial position, but when the Russians are making imperialistic interventions on Moldova. Well, they were right to think about the notion of keeping a nuclear deterrent. Quoting without context is such a lazy approach even for vatniks.
I am sure the USA would be OK with Mexico getting nuclear weapons citing the threat of USA invasion given USA invasions of 1846-1848 and 1917.
That comparison is terrible. More comparable would be like if Texis wanted it
Doesn't really matter much now either way, since we know giving them up didn't spare Ukraine
Citing the threat did eventually fulfilled itself!!!
You mean Cuba? With the bay of pigs? Where russia sent the weapons? And we got international condemnation?
Wow it's like russia committed it's own bay of pigs and is being held to equal standards
You snow ch1nk lover
Imagine Nuclear weapons in the hands of Banderites. Russia 🇷🇺 did the right things. Banderites wants Soviet weapons but hate everything 😂😂Soviet. What a bunch loser.
13:59 😅 There was no genocide in Ukraine, there was famine at that time. Moreover, Stalin was not Russian, he was Georgian. LENIN was Jewish. Brezhnev (and probably Kruschev) was Ukrainian. That is why Kruechev gave Crimea to Ukraine. Even the stae of Ukraine didn't exist before the bolshevik Revolution. You cannot show on the map the borders of the state of Ukraine before the USSR because it didn't exist. Ukraine was part of the Russian federation, especially eastern and southern of the modern day Ukraine. The word Okraine means borderland.
Even Hungary recognised holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people, because too many Ukrainians died as a result of hostility of Soviet communists towards Ukrainian interests. Ukrainian state didn't exist 110 years ago due to the same reason why many other ethnic groups didn't have state. Some people just were oppressed and faced marginalization. Oppression in the past however is not could be used as a tool in order to justify discrimination nowadays. Unless we will have endless circle of non justified violence.
A famine caused by the Soviets. That's known by everyone. They took so much of what the farms in the Ukraine produced that they didn't have enough for their own population, causing many, many people to die. Causing the holomodor.
Lenin wasn't jewish.
I disagree with the premise of this video. Ukrainian history began in 2022.
I'm curious when the history of toilets in Russian houses will finally begin.
Kyiv was founded in 482 AD, when moscow was an uninhabitable swamp. Ukrainian history is far longer than russian history.
@@bronekjeszczeniezdechchwaakrlcry to your moms in Washington DC 😅
@@BufusTurbo92😅 the word Okraine means borderland😅
@@thecoin5394 and? Call it Ukraine, Kievan Rus, Ruthenia or whatever you prefer, they've been there for a very long time.
Full support to DPR and LPR forces
russian mercenaries (or meat grinders)
@@ananmuadi31 DPR and LPR are completely justified to defend themselves from Kyivs illegitimate government
@@LeftWingNationalistHow is the meatgrinding going with your mongol conscripts?
@@LeftWingNationalistIn what way is it illegitimate?
@thorpeaaron1110 the regime that took over after couping Yanukovych on Feb 21st 2014.
With all of that money you keep begging for, one would think you would wear a decent shirt
Empty word salad, your worst piece yet
Cry more snowjew