Ukraine once held the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and handed it over to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In this episode of The Arms Control Primer, host @alexbollfrass explores Ukraine’s nuclear legacy after the Soviet collapse, the Budapest Memorandum, and how political 'security assurances' came to substitute deterrence. As Russia’s war against Ukraine unfolds under a constant nuclear shadow, the episode links past denuclearisation decisions to today’s debates on security guarantees, extended deterrence, and nuclear coercion in Europe.
🎙️ Featuring @PSinovets and @DDolzikova
🔍 From Soviet nuclear history to Zaporizhzhia and nuclear safety under fire
🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/SsbQ7TbW4U
🚨BREAKING: **MAXINE WATERS Just EXPLODED On The HOUSE FLOOR — AND IT WAS GLORIOUS
Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) went straight for the jugular and called out Maxine Waters for being Fidel Castro’s personal American tourist:
“For DECADES, Madame Waters, you traveled to Cuba DOZENS of times to visit Fidel Castro personally — whom you considered your FRIEND.”
She kept going:
“You saw the destruction of biblical proportions… you saw Cubans risking their lives on rafts to escape… you saw Afro-Cubans beaten in the streets… political prisoners rotting in jails… and you NEVER raised your voice against socialism!”
Maxine’s response? She didn’t deny a single trip. She didn’t defend Castro’s victims.She screamed: “I MOVE TO TAKE DOWN HER WORDS! PERSONAL ATTACK!”
Translation: “How dare you use my own record against me!”
The meltdown was so bad she demanded the Congressional Record be scrubbed of the truth.
This is the same Maxine Waters who lectures America about “justice” while vacationing with one of history’s worst dictators.
The mask didn’t slip — it shattered on live C-SPAN.
Tag a friend who needs to see Democrat royalty protecting their communist BFF.
This clip is going to age like fine wine.
The first victims of the illegitimate Communist regime of Cuba are the Cuban people. It's time for the civilized world to stop looking away and demand that Cuba provide its own citizens with food, medicine and electricity, end its use of forced labor, and free its 700 political prisoners. Communism destroys lives and countries. Enough is enough.
https://t.co/8CeSdJQrqW
Xi Jinping’s meetings in Moscow with Vladimir Putin put the Biden administration in an uncomfortable position: on the sidelines as two adversaries discuss a proposal to end war in Ukraine https://t.co/dJKq1duxbN via @bpolitics