Ukraine is often jokingly called the "European womb", the most well-known is only the Ukrainian beauty, why this small land area, the military power has long been greatly inferior to the previous country but repeatedly dare to break the wrist with Russia? Today we will take a look at the country at the bottom of the European economy. Ukraine is located in the east of Europe, bordering Russia to the east, the Black Sea to the south, Belarus to the north, and Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the west. Ukraine is geographically important and is the geopolitical intersection between the European Union and Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared its independence and became a sovereign state with a total area of 415,800 square kilometers and a population of 42.03 million, making it a multi-ethnic country.
Geographical location of Ukraine
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in accordance with the principle of territorialism they pursued, a large number of soldiers stationed in various places, parked armored vehicles, tanks, and reserved military resources were settled in accordance with their own locations at that time. Russia inherited a large land area and military power, while Ukraine inherited more than 2,000 nuclear warheads of strategic and tactical missiles left over from the Soviet era.
Ukraine's nuclear weapons
In addition to these fearsome nuclear weapons, Ukraine's industrial prowess also exceeded the predictions of European military experts at the time. They inherited three large shipyards during the Soviet era, of which the Black Sea Shipyard was the most important, which was a shipyard that could build aircraft carriers in the Soviet era, as well as more than 3,000 military factories and 3 million experienced workers, which stood at about 1/5 of the GDP of the Soviet Union. With such a strong military industrial reserve, it should be a military power in any place. Even China, which had only been in the reform and opening up for more than a decade at that time, would be quite envious. Since the founding of Ukraine, there has been an industrial accumulation that most countries do not have, and as long as there is no accident, Ukraine can let its people win at the starting line just by selling arms.
The main ukrainian military factory
Unfortunately, these things are not at all rivals to Russia, which has inherited most of the Soviet Union's legacy. As relations between Ukraine and Russia deteriorated, Ukraine was unable to fight and fight, its request to join the US-led NATO was rejected, and it was later fooled by the United States as a non-nuclear state. After joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Ukraine lost its martial arts and began to decline. However, it is precisely because of the surrender of self-deprecating martial arts that Ukraine has completely obtained the big backer of the United States, and the United States has also promised to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, guaranteeing that it will not use nuclear weapons against Ukraine and guarantee ukraine's territorial integrity. So we can see that every time there is friction between Ukraine and Russia, nato forces led by the United States go to help Ukraine every time. But without a strong military on their own, Ukraine became toothless tigers, losing crimea in 2014.
Ukraine self-destructed nuclear weapons
Now it seems that what the United States said would guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine is that it is just saying. The United States watched the fire from the other side and instigated Ukraine to fight with Russia, which is nothing more than trying to further deplete Russia and make this polar bear unable to stand up forever. This also makes us understand a truth, only when our own strength is strong, can we protect ourselves, and never put our fate in the hands of others, even if he is the first in the world.