Rogue Elements in the U.S., EU, UK, and Israel Are Secretly Arming Ukraine with Nuclear Weapons
Exploration of covert proliferation, geopolitical desperation, and nuclear brinkmanship
Disclaimer: This article is part of a speculative ‘Thresholds’ series exploring plausible geopolitical scenarios based on existing capabilities, historic precedent, and current tensions. It is not a claim of fact, but an examination of possibilities that demand scrutiny.
The war in Ukraine has become the longest and most volatile European conflict since WWII. After the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the U.S., and the UK. That promise collapsed in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and was finally buried in 2022 with the full-scale invasion. Since then, Kyiv has received over $380 billion in Western aid, with a backdrop of over $500 billion in economic damage. But whispers now point to a darker turn: rogue factions in the U.S., EU, UK, and Israel enabling Ukraine to develop nuclear weapons, not just to survive, but to fundamentally shift the global balance.
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