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Comment by Lapsa

3 months ago

afaik Ukraine never got paid for nuclear disarmament as initially agreed - about $200 billions

I wonder where people get these ideas. The Budapest Memorandum is very short, it'll take five minutes to read if you want to know what was actually agreed. It seems like people just sort of imagine what they would have agreed to, and run with it.

  • thank you, will take a closer look. overheard it from whatever talk. ain't easy to fact check everything

They got paid mainly in nuclear fuel, there was some disagreement at the rate by which they got fuel in exchange for the weapons and maybe they didn't get quite all the fuel they should have, but for sure they did get paid at least partially.