A piece on 🇷🇺, Putin, nukes, and treaties should include a mention of the Budapest Memorandum - when 🇺🇦, then 3rd largest nuclear power, agreed to surrender all of its nukes in exchange for "security guarantees" from Russia & others.

20 years later Russia attacked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/world/americas/trump-putin-ukraine.html