You’re being downvoted, but sadly your opinion is representative of a huge percentage of the population. The part that has a… simple, transactional view of each and every international incident.
That’s the most polite way I could express that.
The more nuanced view is this:
America made a deal with Ukraine: Give up your nuclear weapons in exchange for our protection.
They made similar deals with Taiwan, South Korea, and others. Sometimes with signatures on paper, sometimes with threats of “don’t even think about it”.
Now they are “all thinking about it”. All of them: the countries with small populations, small armies, inconveniently located next to a larger bully like Russia or China.
Here in Australia, the right wing government is prepping us to build nuclear weapons. We’re acquiring nuclear-powered submarines that can launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles and the only thing they’re proposing in the next election is building dozens of nuclear power plants… that they admit will only fulfill maybe 4% of our energy needs… but 100% of our weapons-grade plutonium breeding needs.
South Korea and Japan already have the nuclear plants.
What do you think they’re planning, now that they all see how worthless American promises are?
Especially since yesterday’s(!) events, when Trump was asked about AUKUS, the most important and closest military alliance the US is a part of and he had no idea what it was!
This is why even close allies are tooling up for imminent global nuclear conflict.
Because America elected a president that famously violates the terms of every contract he’s ever signed.
Japan is absolutely thinking about its own nuclear deterrent. The conventional diplomatic wisdom is that they can spin one up rapidly. Like most countries, they're deeply taken aback by the US trashing existing alliances and showing far more rhetorical aggression toward its neighbors than its supposed antagonists.
That’s the most polite way I could express that.
The more nuanced view is this:
America made a deal with Ukraine: Give up your nuclear weapons in exchange for our protection.
They made similar deals with Taiwan, South Korea, and others. Sometimes with signatures on paper, sometimes with threats of “don’t even think about it”.
Now they are “all thinking about it”. All of them: the countries with small populations, small armies, inconveniently located next to a larger bully like Russia or China.
Here in Australia, the right wing government is prepping us to build nuclear weapons. We’re acquiring nuclear-powered submarines that can launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles and the only thing they’re proposing in the next election is building dozens of nuclear power plants… that they admit will only fulfill maybe 4% of our energy needs… but 100% of our weapons-grade plutonium breeding needs.
South Korea and Japan already have the nuclear plants.
What do you think they’re planning, now that they all see how worthless American promises are?
Especially since yesterday’s(!) events, when Trump was asked about AUKUS, the most important and closest military alliance the US is a part of and he had no idea what it was!
This is why even close allies are tooling up for imminent global nuclear conflict.
Because America elected a president that famously violates the terms of every contract he’s ever signed.
Twice. To make sure everyone got the message.