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Putin would vote 100 million times.

Yes, I suspect we will never agree. I see the worthless guarantees given to Ukraine by the international community in exchange for nuclear disarmament, as a significant event in recent world history which has set back nuclear disarmament decades, or even into the next century.

The Kremlin would always be asking itself 'would the Ukrainians fire a nuke if we go ahead in Crimea'. And they would never know. Deterence would be working. Of course, what happened is that Ukraine disarmed its nuclear forces in exchange for international guarantees - guarantees with...

There is no chance Russia would have annexed Crimea if Ukraine hadn't signed away its nuclear weapons in 1994. That one action has set back nuclear disarmament decades, maybe a century. A lesson to us all.

Yes, indeed. The reply was meant to convey that they never were a deterrent to an invasion of a CD or BOT. And what Galtieri did is irrelevant. There was no nuclear deterent in place that covered the Falkland Islands.

'Yeah' and Galtieri didn't invade the UK did he ? Seriously, UK nuclear weapons are not an asset for defending Crown Dependencies, or Overseas Territories.

Ukraine had part of it's territory annexed by Russia. Unluckily they had already given up their nuclear arsenal in 1994, and international guarantees were not worth the paper they were written on.

All the time the Thief of Svastopol is in the Kremlin we need our nukes.