Double irony here.

“You’re all dressed up today,” Trump said sarcastically.

Check out Churchill’s outfit during a war time visit to the White House

Regulations and taxes could have prevented this (sort of).

The stuff you need to make this sort of thing isn’t off the shelf, they would have to buy or build a shitload of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_centrifuge

and its not cheap, these are just maintenance cost (and upgrades)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/752531/nuclear-weapons-spending-worldwide-by-country/

Ukraine’s gdp is around 170 billion, so it isn’t really something they could afford to just crank up.

On a personal note, I hope we as a species never fire another one of these weapons ever again.

Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons. They gave them up for peace…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum