Ukraine’s Nuclear Option – OpEd
By Georgi Gotev
(EurActiv) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made it plain in Brussels Thursday (17 October): if his country does not get a NATO invite immediately, it will develop nuclear weapons.
Facing the press after his participation at the EU summit, Zelenskyy was asked how he hoped to convince the US President, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, that Ukraine should receive an official invitation to join NATO “right now”.
Receiving an invitation to join NATO “right now” is at the top of the five points from his ‘Victory Plan’, which he presented to EU leaders the same day.
He said he would give an example of a conversation he had on this issue.
“I talked to Trump about NATO. There are different signals in the media about his attitude. I gave him the example of the Budapest memorandum,” he said.
Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine surrendered its numerous Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees from Russia, the US, the UK, France, and China to respect its sovereignty and........
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