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so it seems that if things get desperate
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for Ukraine they could build a nuclear
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bomb in just mere months the reason is
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simple the reason is singular and that
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reason is Putin this nuclear bomb plan
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was presented to president zalinski by
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in a
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briefing paper so let's get into this
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briefing paper see what the plans are
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and then talk about if this is realistic
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or just a speculation best of all we
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already have Putin's reaction on this
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that we covered once before but Putin
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has basically come out and said that
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he's strongly against Ukraine having any
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kind of nukes though like always be sure
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to hit the like button down below to
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help us out with the algorithm and let's
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begin now earlier just before the brick
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Summit that happened in Kazan Russia
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Putin was asked this exact question what
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would Russia do if Ukraine pursued
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nuclear weapons and this was his
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response let's
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listen this is another provocation it is
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not difficult to create nuclear weapons
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in the modern world I don't know if
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Ukraine can do it now it's not so easy
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for today's Ukraine but in general it's
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there are no big difficulties there it
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is obvious how to do it so this is a
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dangerous provocation because any step
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in this direction will meet the
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appropriate reaction this is secondly
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thirdly and most importantly the
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political leadership of Ukraine has
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repeatedly talked about it even before
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the crisis went into a hot phase they
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had already stated earlier that well
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they stated so relatively mildly but
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nevertheless they said that Ukraine
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should have nuclear weapons such a
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threat will get a corresponding reaction
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from the Russian Federation as well I
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can state right away that Russia will
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not allow this under any circumstances
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now another thing that's kind of a
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coincident is the same day the Ukrainian
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report got leaked was the same day NATO
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military committed chair Rob Bowers
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stated something in an interview or at
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least the day that clip went viral on
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social media and he was basically
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explaining that the reason NATO troops
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are not in Russia kicking Russian troops
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butts is because Russia has nuclear
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weapons if it wasn't for nuclear weapons
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NATO troops would already be deployed
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listen to it yourself I'm absolutely
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sure if the Russians did not have
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nuclear weapons we would have been in
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Ukraine kicking them out we would have
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but they have nuclear weapons so it's
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not the same as in Afghanistan now let's
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quickly go over the article now article
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is a bit long and you can all go read it
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at the times it's not paid you just need
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a subscription so you give them your
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email and they'll show you the report
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but basically what the article says that
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Ukraine has the capabilities to build a
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bomb similar to the one that us dropped
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on Nagasaki in just few months but
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Ukraine doesn't have the capabilities to
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enrich uranium to create a nuclear
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reaction so they will likely use
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plutonium that was extracted from fuel
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rods Ukraine still has nine operational
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nuclear reactors and they can get the
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fuel rods from these reactors but then
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later on they clarified that Ukrainian
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would still need a reprocessing plant to
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basically convert this plutonium into
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something that they can use in a nuclear
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bomb and that plant will take years to
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build so because of this chances of
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Ukraine building a nuclear weapon
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especially one in secret is very very
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low on top of that I don't think they
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have a political will to build a nuclear
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weapon cuz it might have some allies
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feeling some way if more and more
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countries get nuclear weapons cuz then
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what's stopping other countries for
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arguing the same thing that they need
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nuclear weapons for their own security
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what's more likely is this may be a
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negotiating leverage for Ukraine where
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they may be sending a message to the
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Future Administration or even Russia
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that they have the capabilities to make
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nuclear weapon if they don't have proper
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security guarantees in fact this is
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something we talked about with Colonel
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hus B and Gordon this morning and here's
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the clip well I think I think they two
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issues here that that we should perhaps
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unpack um you know first first of all
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you know they are asking because of the
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concern that usaid might might um uh
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might might be withdrawn or at least you
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know um paired down and that that's a
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concern for everybody um you know
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especially this side of the pond I could
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tell you um um and you know in the
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reporting the times and and other
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reports around today are also sort of
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saying well you know zalinski mentioned
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this a few weeks ago and some of his
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team are saying well you know we could
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perhaps build a s small nuclear um
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weapon that would we could take out
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airfields in you know in Russia and
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stuff um which which to me is he's
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really saying he's really aiming very
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much at the US British and French
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government saying well I wouldn't need a
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nuclear weapon if we had Storm Shadow
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missiles attacks and scalp and Taurus
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missiles that I could fire into Russia
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sort of thing so I think that seems to
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be the Strategic message coming out of
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ke but if we look at the practicality of
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them building a nuclear weapon well
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until
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1994 um Ukraine was a nuclear Nation you
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know when it was still part of the
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Soviet block you know they had 1,700
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nuclear missiles uh which is
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about five times what the UK has and
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it's about a fifth of what the US has so
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you know very significant player um the
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uh Budapest memorandum signed between
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the US UK and Russia basically took
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those nuclear weapons off Ukraine uh on
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the Proviso that those three countries
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would ensure the security of Ukraine now
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obviously that hasn't happened so one
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can see why zalinski the ukrainians are
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pretty hacked off by it um so when it
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comes on to the practicalities of a
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nuclear device well I think everybody
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knows that um Ukraine from a nuclear
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power situation is massive you know
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before the war 60% of their power came
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from nuclear they've got the largest
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nuclear power station in Europe second
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largest in the world at zapara so
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they've got a lot of nuclear Isotopes a
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lot of nuclear material they could use
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um the report published that the times
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talks about is the ukrainians saying
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they're going to use plutonium
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239 um and they can fashion it into a A
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small basic nuclear weapon about a a
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tenth of the size of the fat boy which
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was the um US nuclear bomb that was
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dropped on Nagasaki back in
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1944 that bomb had a yield of about 21
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kilotons which is
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21,000 tons of conventional explosive
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what the ukrainians are saying they
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could do one maybe one or two kilotons
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so 1 or 2,000 tons of conventional
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explosive that is still a massive bang
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um now could could they do it well
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they've got a lot of plutonium that they
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could use in fact the the fat boy Bal
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only had 6 kg of plutonium it's thought
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Ukraine's probably got seven tons of the
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stuff however this is plutonium spent
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fuel from the nuclear power stations um
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in order to make it viable it would need
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to be reprocessed in other words all the
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impurities and other chemicals around it
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would need to be removed to do that you
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need a reprocessing factory which the
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ukrainians currently don't have there
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was a study done in the US in the 70s
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about the practicalities of making a
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small nuclear device of plutonium the
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conclusion was it was possible um there
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are reports that it would take the
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ukrainians 5 years to build a re
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reprocessing plant but there are other
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reports saying it could they could do it
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in four to six months so I think in
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basic term and the other piece is one
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has to assume that with all the history
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of nuclear weapons that Ukraine's had
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there must be a lot of corporate
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knowledge there'll still be some
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scientists who know what to do so I
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think if you put all that together yeah
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it is possible that Ukraine in 6 to 12
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months could produce a small viable
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nuclear device based on plutonium that
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could yield about one or two kilotons
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they probably have missiles and drones
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that they could launch it on
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but to me it's all it's a messaging
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thing um you know if if if you stop
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helping us we're going to have to go
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nuclear and and absolutely nobody wants
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that because you know presumably if
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Ukraine fires a nuclear weapon into
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Russia Russia's going to far back
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nuclear weapons you know with a lot you
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know a lot lot more which could then
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create a sort of a chain reaction to use
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a nuclear expression that would
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reverberate around the world so yeah I
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personally hope that um our governments
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listen to seninsky and make sure that he
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has everything he needs to do go back to
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our first point you know if they can
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still hold that ground in KK by
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Christmas and Russia runs out of manpow
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then then the the ceasefire that um
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president Trump is talking about uh can
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happen on zelinsky's terms not on
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Putin's terms the big reason this topic
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has come up is because many around the
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world many people who are pro Ukrainian
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are feeling a little uneasy since Trump
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was elected president because he's
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unpredictable and many believe that he
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might try to force a peace deal on
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Ukrainian that ukrainians might not be a
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fan of to fulfill his campaign promises
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now this is something we talked about
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with Ben Hodes General Ben Hodes in our
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most recent podcast so let's listen to
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that and then we'll get into zalinski
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denying that Ukraine has no plans to get
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nuclear weapons I do believe that uh
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President elect Trump thinks that the
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United States has gotten a bad deal I
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mean if if you think in terms of like a
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a real estate guy or business guy that
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that we've gotten a bad deal now I
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believe that uh even though our European
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allies have not many of them have not
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lived up to their uh obligations
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especially some of the most wealthy ones
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like Germany and France and Italy and
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the Netherlands and Norway and Canada um
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the fact is is it's still in our our
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interest our advantage to be the leader
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in NATO because of the access we have in
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Europe what that means for us in the
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Middle East in Africa and and because we
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need allies we don't have enough
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capacity to do everything
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ourself um around the world we need
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allies and most of our best and most
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reliable allies come from Europe as well
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as Canada and Australia Japan and South
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Korea but it is a fair
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criticism for the president to say hey
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we've you guys have been able to have
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these enormous uh wealthy um social
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systems and and health care and all
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these things for your people because
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you're not spending money on defense the
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US is doing it for you that's
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unacceptable to the American people and
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I think that's why Mr Trump talks about
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you know this is not that the the United
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States has not gotten a fair deal here
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and that animates him that animates his
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his uh supporters and so um this is
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where I think it would be wise for for
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Germany and other European leaders to
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say Mr
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President don't turn your back on us but
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we I guarantee you we will do this and
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this and this um because we need
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American leadership we need American
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presence just like you need German
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French Dutch British polish um
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capabilities we will do that and and so
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I think there is room and opportunity if
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you've got the right leadership in
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Europe to act actually move towards
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changing that perception of the US not
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getting a good deal and uh they could
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take pressure off the United States
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actually so that we can focus on China I
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think Europe being proactive instead of
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complaining about Trump or the us or
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Ukraine wants nuclear weapons to protect
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itself against Russia at least that was
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the news all day yesterday because of
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what zalinski said watch it
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yourself so how can we believe in this
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document and how can we trust all the
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partners who guaranteed the protection
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of our territorial integrity and
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sovereignty the answer is very simple
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does it work no this document does not
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work do the other major Partners
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agreements with Russia work no these
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were not only agreements between Ukraine
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and Russia but also between Ukraine and
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all its Partners so in general all these
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agreements did not work out which of
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these big countries all the nuclear
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Powers were affected all of them no only
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Ukraine who gave away the nuclear
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weapons all of them no only one who
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Ukraine who is at War today Ukraine and
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so it turns out that in a conversation
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with Donald Trump I told him it works
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out this way what is the solution or
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Ukraine will have nuclear weapons and
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then it will be a defense for us or we
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should have some kind of Alliance NATO
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we do not know any effective alliances
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today the NATO countries are not at War
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today NATO members are not at war in
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NATO countries people are all alive
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thank God and that is why we choose NATO
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not nuclear weapons we are choosing
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NATO now as every media was reporting on
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this claiming that zalinsky just said
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Ukraine wants nukes Putin came right out
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to say that Russia is not going to
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accept it I'll show you guys that in
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provide some background as to what
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zalinski just said he talks about the
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Budapest memorandum it was signed by the
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US UK and Russia all three countries
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provided Ukraine with security
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guarantees in return for Ukraine
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returning the nuclear bombs to nuclear
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weapons that it had from Soviet eras you
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see when Soviet Union fell apart there
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were four countries that inherited the
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whole nuclear stockpile one of them
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being Russia and other three were
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Ukraine Belarus and Kazakhstan now
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Belarus and Kazakhstan didn't have much
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to begin with but they also quickly
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returned everything to Russia but
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Ukraine was little hesitant and on top
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of that Ukraine had the third largest
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stock bile of nuclear weapons after us
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and Russia now Ukraine didn't want to
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give this up they were actually having
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debates in their Parliament because the
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officials strongly believed that if they
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were to relinquish the nuclear weapons
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they would likely come under attack by
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Russia with benefit of hindsight safe to
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say they were exactly on point but at
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that point us and the West Was extremely
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worried about all this nuclear stockpile
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that Ukraine had mainly because what was
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going on in Yugoslavia as Yugoslavia was
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falling apart us didn't want Ukraine to
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become another Yugoslavia with nuclear
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weapons so it pushed heavily for Ukraine
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to give up its nukes in return us UK and
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Russia gave Ukraine security guarantees
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if Ukrainian borders were to be breached
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everyone involved will provide Ukraine
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with assistance to maintain its
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sovereignty so that's exactly what
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president zalinski is referring to if
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Russia didn't respect the document is
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signed at Budapest memorandum how can
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Ukraine expect Russia to follow any
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future peace deal that is signed that's
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why President zalinski says only way for
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a country like Ukraine to be safe from
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Russia is to either have nukes or be in
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NATO and then he goes on to add that
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Ukraine doesn't want nukes it chooses
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the NATO path it wants to be in NATO
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here listen to the last part again cuz I
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really want to emphasize this he says
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this in the end in the
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clip in NATO countries people are all
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alive thank God and that is why we
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choose and that is why we choose NATO
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not nuclear weapons
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we are choosing NATO now of course Putin
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was not going to let this news go to
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waste he used it again to remind the
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West that Russia is a superpower here
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listen to it
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yourself this is another provocation it
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is not difficult to create nuclear
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weapons in the modern world I don't know
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if Ukraine can do it now it's not so
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easy for today's Ukraine but in general
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it's there are no big difficulties there
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it is obvious how to do it so this is a
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dangerous provocation because any step
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in this direction will meet the
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appropriate reaction this is secondly
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thirdly and most importantly the
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political leadership of Ukraine has
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repeatedly talked about it even before
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the crisis went into a hot phase they
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had already stated earlier that well
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they stated so relatively mildly but
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nevertheless they said that Ukraine
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should have nuclear weapons such a
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threat will get a corresponding reaction
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from the Russian Federation as well I
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can state right away that Russia will
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not allow this under any circumstances
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but at the end of the day Ukraine was
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never saying that it's pursuing nuclear
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weapons sininsky was just recalling a
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conversation he had with former
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president Trump and that's why he used
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the word nukes at the end of the day
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even end of the clip he says that we
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want NATO Ukraine wants NATO and that's
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the path they choose but just a day
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after or maybe the same day I'm not sure
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but the first spee was at the EU Summit
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but at the NATO Summit in the same city
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he got asked this during a press
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conference and this is what he had to
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say um Mr President you just made it
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clear at the EU Summit that the question
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of nuclear weapons would arise for
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Ukraine if it cannot become a NATO
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member so in this context can you tell
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us how long it would take for Ukraine to
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build a nuclear bomb and a question to
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the Secretary General would you
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understand if Ukraine were to build a
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nuclear B uh bomb if it cannot become a
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NATO member thank you you you sometimes
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we create ourselves problems now you
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began to do it so we never
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spoke about that we are preparing to
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create nuclear weapon or something like
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this I said that when Budapest
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memorandum was signed by very
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honorable nuclear
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very powerful nuclear countries there
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was written that Ukraine gives nuclear
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weapon and Ukraine will have from these
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very respectable countries including
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those time Russia China United States
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including them yes that we will have our
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secured territorial integrity and
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sovereignty that what I
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said and I said so it meant that we gave
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nuclear and the these people who've been
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Partners those time they had to give us
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security guarantees and if after that
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Putin began this occupation not once
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during all these years during the
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revolutions during 10 last years two
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times during last 10 years it means that
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it's not very good umbrella for our
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security that's why I said I don't have
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alter alternative except NATO that was
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my signal but we don't do nuclear web
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please don't move these
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messages now important to note during
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the Budapest memorandum China and France
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were not part of it they didn't sign
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that document but they did provide
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Ukraine assurances in a separate deal it
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wasn't as strong that deal compared to
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the Budapest memorandum but it was there
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and that's why he brought up China too
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another interesting story here when
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Ukraine did have nuclear weapons they
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just had the physical nuclear weapons
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they did not have the codes to launch
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them the cods were still in Moscow or
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the central of Soviet Union wherever
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that was and Ukraine didn't have it
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Russia had it but it was pretty much
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expected that if Ukraine kept the
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weapons they could have figured out a
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way to use them either they could just
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take away the Warhead attach it to
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something else or somehow some way they
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could have figured it out now of course
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Ukraine has made needed abundant to
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clear they don't want to promote this
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nuclear fearmongering but you know one
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country that is promoting a nuclear
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fearmongering it's Russia every time any
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question comes up on how West should
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help Ukraine win this war or give them a
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Fighting Chance in This war against
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Russia who's just using everything at
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their disposal except nuclear weapons
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the whole Russian government is quick to
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remind the world that Russia has nukes
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and it's not afraid to use it this is
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