In recent years, Ukraine has comprehensively turned to Europe and the United States, and this year finally fully angered the Russian big brother, first by Russia occupying the extremely important Strategic Black Sea strategic site - the Crimean Peninsula, and then donetsk and Luhansk declared independence, and now it is fully "invaded" by the big brother. In the face of this passive situation of "calling every day should not be, calling the land not working", European and American countries do not pay lip service to the truth, more just fight with Russia, today's Ukraine, that can really be described as "miserable".
When it comes to the current situation in Ukraine, the average person usually thinks of words like "loser", after all, as the second successor of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has also been arrogant.
Do you remember that in the Soviet era, Ukraine, as the second largest member state, received special care from the Soviet Union by virtue of its geographical advantage in the eastern European plains and its abundant capital as a european granary. In addition, at that time, a large number of Soviet military industries and troops were deployed in Ukraine, accounting for almost 30% of the overall military strength of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine not only had nuclear weapons and strategic bombers, but also was one of the countries with the most complete military and heavy industry systems in the world at that time.
But looking at it now, the Ukrainian people are now living in ruins and the masses are not happy, and they have become the poorest country in Europe.
It has been said that all this is the result of Ukraine's self-destructing weapons and is entirely "self-inflicted". So, is this really the case? According to records, in 1992, Ukraine took the initiative to destroy 176 intercontinental missiles, as well as 1240 nuclear warheads, self-destruct tu 160 strategic bombers, dismantle the 100,000-ton catapult aircraft carrier of the Ulyanovsk and other self-destructing acts.
So, is this view correct? If Ukraine had not given up these strategic-level equipment and assumed the status of the world's third-largest nuclear power, would it really not have happened today?
Personally, I feel that this statement is too much of an idealization of the individual, and there is a lack of certain understanding of real history and professional knowledge. If Ukraine had really sworn to defend these town artifacts to the death, it really would not have had a better life than it is today. Besides, it was really helpless for Wu to destroy these equipment.
Ukraine is located in the south of Eastern Europe, is the largest territory of Europe except Russia, the territory area of about 600,000 square kilometers, east of Russia, south of the Black Sea, north and Belarus adjacent, west and Poland and other traditional Western European countries close to, in Western Europe and Russia as the representative of the CIS countries border line, geographical location is very important, so in the Soviet Union period, the Soviet Union poured all its strength to build Ukraine, in Ukraine to establish a huge industrialization facilities represented by heavy industry, A large number of relevant scientific research units were also developed as the last stop in the defense of Moscow.
Naturally, huge nuclear weapons and heavy mechanized combat equipment are also indispensable. During the Cold War, Ukraine deployed 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1240 nuclear warheads, more than 3000 tactical nuclear weapons, 24 Tu-160 strategic bombers and other equipment. After 1991, at the beginning of independence, Ukraine became the world's third largest nuclear power after the United States and Russia in scale, but at the beginning of independence, Ukraine did not choose to retain all strategic equipment, not only self-destructed 1240 nuclear warheads, the rest were all returned to Russia, Ukraine also sold the 60,000-ton Varyag aircraft carrier to China, the remaining Tu 160 bombers are also sold, dismantled, dismantled, in short, strategic equipment Ukraine is not retained at all.
So why did Ukraine do this? The real reasons are mainly reflected in these aspects:
First, Ukraine has only inherited the equipment, not the system of use, and the maintenance and use of nuclear weapons requires a separate operating system. If Ukraine's nuclear weapons want to be launched, they need to use Russia's launch operation system, so Ukraine's inheritance of nuclear weapons is useless, and it does not even have the ability to activate the system. This situation is not only reflected in nuclear weapons, strategic bombers are the same, strategic bombers need satellite systems and long-range air defense systems, as well as land-based air-based and sea-based reconnaissance information sharing systems, in order to achieve strategic cruise and raid operations, without all-round support, just lifted off will be locked and tracked, and there is no difference with scrap iron?
Second, and importantly, there is no money. The Collapse of the Soviet Union was hasty, the member states were not prepared, and the Alliance basically left nothing but a huge heavy industrial system and huge armaments for the member countries, not only did not leave any family foundation, but also left tens of billions of foreign debts, like Russia at the beginning of independence had to move forward with difficulty, but also had to empty the family bottom to pay off the debt, and if it could not afford it, it had to take things to top the account. In order to repay South Korea's more than 3 billion loans, even more than 40,000 tons of carrier-based aircraft cruisers and the most advanced T80 have been taken to pay off the debt, and Russia has the resources to rely on oil and gas to quickly return to the water, but Ukraine has nothing but black soil to grow potatoes and corn, and to feed such a huge nuclear arsenal, there is no four or five billion DOLLARs a year maintenance fees, it is simply impossible. Do you want to know that Ukraine's economy today ranks 120 in the world, what is the concept of this 120? Mongolia, to the north of us, ranks 117th, three places behind Mongolia, and it is impossible to raise nuclear weapons at such an economic level.
Third, there are no supporting facilities, and it is impossible to play at all. Nuclear weapons, bombers, or the use of aircraft carriers are a huge system engineering, nuclear weapons launch system in Russia, bomber engine manufacturers are also in Russia, things are broken can not be repaired, with a few months estimated to be all lying down. Ukrainian shipbuilding is a little stronger, but the ship is a collection of products, the carrier-based aircraft is not, the radar can not be produced, the special steel can not be built, so simply give up better, anyway, it is a burden.
Therefore, in summary, it is not that Ukraine does not want to keep these big killers, it is really impossible to raise, it can not be raised, so it can only choose to let go. To be honest, such a treasure, who doesn't want it?