NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL: No Trump Support, Ukraine to Develop Bomb?

The Trends Journal has said WWIII has begun, but will not become "official" until the first nuclear strike

Ukraine looks like it’s sending the incoming Trump administration a message: keep up the weapons support, or we’ll go nuclear against Russia.

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A document prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense laid out how Kyiv could quickly develop a “rudimentary nuclear bomb” that it could be used in its war against Russia, according to a report in The Times of London.

Maxim Tucker, the paper’s journalist in Kyiv, said the document suggested that Ukraine could develop the bomb within months if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump withdraws Washington’s military assistance.

Ukraine gave up what would have been the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, consisting of some 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads in 1994.

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Tucker said the document was produced by an influential Ukrainian think tank with close ties to the government. He said the revelation makes it clear that Kyiv is much closer to developing a weapon than the four years that analysts have said in the past.

The official position of Ukraine is that it will not develop the weapons. Still, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the European Council summit in Brussels in October that either Ukraine “will have nuclear weapons and that will be our protection or we should have some sort of alliance. Apart from NATO, today we do not know any effective alliances.”

Tucker said Ukraine would use plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods that would be based on plutonium and not enriched uranium, which would allow them to create a small-yield tactical nuclear weapon that would be capable of destroying an entire Russian airbase.

Alexey Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP, pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about nukes back in February at the Munich Security Conference.

Goncharenko said Ukraine has three options: NATO membership, allying with a nuclear power, or “restoring our nuclear potential.”

He said Blinken dodged his inquires.

He said, “We don’t need a thousand. We need 20.”

Those in favor of all-out war for Ukraine have seized on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum that vowed security assurances as long as Ukraine transferred its nuclear arsenal obtained after the fall of the Soviet Union. 

The U.S. and U.K. vowed to come to Kyiv’s aid, but denied Kyiv’s request for a “legally binding guarantee.”

The Brookings Institute noted that the Budapest Memorandum was signed by the U.S., UK, and Russia – and included security “assurances,” not “guarantees.”

Guarantees would have implied a commitment of American military force, which NATO members have, according to the think tank.

In 2023, Waldemar Skrzypczak, the Polish general and former junior defense minister, said he does not rule out the possibility that Ukraine’s military has nuclear capabilities.

The general said he cannot rule out the theory because Ukraine has “nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories and know-how.”

“In other words, everything they need to possess such a weapon. In fact, today no one is in a position to prohibit the Ukrainians from having it,” he said.

TREND FORECAST: As we had forecast before the Ukraine War began on 24 February 2022, Russia would not be defeated.