• davel
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    2 months ago

    Would keeping their nukes have prevented US-backed coups in 2004 and 2014? If not, then it’s for the best that they gave them up before the Banderites took power.

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      2 months ago

      Maybe? Whether a country has nukes it could use to retaliate has to be part of the “should we coup/color revolution this country?” calculus.

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        2 months ago

        One might argue that we couped the entire Warsaw Pact.

        • REEEEvolution
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          Nothing to argue, this is what happened. Literally all former warsaw treaty countries, sans Belorussia, had western backed coups.