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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Ukraine
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:15:40 +1100
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On 1/04/2025 4:10 am, Don Y wrote:
> On 3/31/2025 3:16 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>> Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:
>>> Remember the Budapest Memorandum of Dec-5-1994 where Ukraine gave
>>> up their nuclear weapons in exchange for safety guarantees from
>>> US, RU and UK?
>>> They had the 3rd largest arsenal on earth.
>>>
>>> Foolish in retrospect.
>>
>> That's where we went wrong, we should have nipped it in the bud.  We
>> still haven't learned.   The longer we leave it, the more expensive in
>> lives and materials it will be to push Putin's Russia back behind its
>> own borders.
> 
> Politicians never want to "solve" problems -- because that is
> difficult and means telling people (who put them in power)
> things that those people likely won't want to hear.
> 
> It's been so much easier for europe NOT to have to build up their
> own defenses as that money can, instead, be spent on social programs,
> generous "vacations", etc.

Europe has spent quite a lot on it's own defences. The US 
military-industrial complex would like it to spend more, preferably on 
buying American weapons from the US military-industrial complex.

<snip>

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney