Soviet nuclear weapons outside Russia
- Belarus had 81 single warhead missiles stationed on its territory after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. They were all transferred to Russia by 1996. In May 1992, Belarus acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[59]
- Kazakhstan inherited 1,400 nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union, and transferred them all to Russia by 1995. Kazakhstan has since acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[60]
- Ukraine has acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ukraine inherited about 5,000 nuclear weapons when it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, making its nuclear arsenal the third-largest in the world.[61] By 1996, Ukraine had voluntarily disposed of all nuclear weapons within its territory, disassembling them in Russia.[62]
Kazakhstan & Belarus turned over the weapons to Russia, while Ukraine got them sent to Russia and disassembled.
And technically, they gave Crimea to Ukraine back in 1954; the Budapest thing was a reaffirmation that the Soviet Oblast borders were to be followed.
How was that a legitimate transfer? Did the population of Crimea have any say in it? Nikita Khrushchev made an arbitrary decision to transfer that peninsula over to his home republic of Ukraine, and it just happened. Neither did the citizens of the RSFSR have any say in whether that bit of land of theirs got to be given to anyone else, nor did their compatriots in the Crimea get to choose either.
Yeah, it would have been better had all of Ukraine gone thru a referendum as to which parts wanted to remain w/ Ukraine, and which parts wanted to go to Russia. Yeah, there is a large Russian minority in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk, but that doesn't make them majorities. But Ukraine is fine going monolingual Ukrainian only: bilingual states have a terrible precedent - just look @ Quebec. Russians in mainland Ukraine (not in Crimea) who don't want to assimilate into Ukrainian can just cross the border. I see that there is plenty of real estate from the Urals to the Bering Straits.
You are wrong, but that's your right to be wrong.
USA government is unconstitutional, it has abandoned the principles upon which the Republic was established. There are no private property rights anymore. This started with the Sherman's act and continued into everything, from income taxes themselves, IRS, the Fed destroying the value of the people's savings, all of the departments, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, payroll taxes, every type of income related tax of-course.
The correct thing to do is to remove USA federal government from power, which it usurped illegally and unconstitutionally and it must be removed from power immediately, by force and with extreme prejudice. Of-course this means that people must not give up any of its earnings to the central mafia that is known as the federal government.
in due time all websites will list it under Russia.
Only the Russian websites will do so. The rest will list it as "Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation". Unwieldy, perhaps, but reflecting the truth.
Or, as they keep saying about Jerusalem, it will go something like this: "Annexed by Russia in a move not recognized internationally."
Did most websites - read organizations - recognize Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania - as independent, but under Soviet occupation, during the Cold War? Do most websites - or organizations - recognize Tibet as an independent country under Chinese occupation? The US recognized and recognizes all of them as occupied but independent, but was that true about anyone else?
Jerusalem has always been a part of Israel. Only disputed part was East Jerusalem, which was a part of Jordan before the Six Day War, and became a part of Israel after that. Unlike the rest of Judea & Samaria, Israel annexed East Jerusalem, just like they did the Golan Heights, so both territories are legitimately part of Israel. Yeah, the rest of the world disputes it, but a good portion of them are in bed w/ the OIC, which in fact recognizes all of Israel as 'Palestine', and would like to replace Israel w/ a Pali state.
If anyone disputes that, they might also want to dispute territorial ownership elsewhere in the world, such as Srpska, whose status is identical to the Crimea, except that Serbia isn't as militarily powerful to reclaim it, the way Russia is for Crimea.
Or better example - Kosovo. There was no vote there either - Albanians just moved in & possessed it, and the US supported them & bombed Serbia over Kosovo, and finally recognized its independence. What Russia did in Crimea was a lot more legit than what the West supported in Kosovo.
At the same time, 'self-determination', which is so important for the Albanians, doesn't apply to Bosnian Serbs in Srpska.
...just don't let them put nuclear waste up there. You don't want it to rip itself out of orbit.
Why not just fire nuclear waste @ the sun?
Anyway, I bunged 'em $500, not like it's serious money and they are doing good work.
See? That's the thing, I don't feel like they are doing good work, so I don't want to give them any money. On the other hand, your post has inspired me to donate to an open source project. I'm off to find one worth donating to that needs some money. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
I can think of some. GNUSTEP. Razor-qt. EToille
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
