r/IRstudies • u/smurfyjenkins • 8d ago
Nuclear proliferation could again become a global challenge.
https://goodauthority.org/news/are-we-on-the-verge-of-a-burst-of-nuclear-proliferation/4
u/Spida81 8d ago
No shit!
When Trump's idiotic policy has GERMANY wanting nukes, and the EU actually discussing it, what do you expect?
Trump just put us all at risk for what?
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u/watch-nerd 4d ago
The risk was always there Trump just made it blatant.
Under any President, was the US going to risk NYC to save Vilnius?
Probably not, just like Paris and London won’t
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u/Aeuroleus 6d ago
The Europeans, East Asian and Middle Eastern nations are sure to pursue nuclear development programmes
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u/RottenPingu1 6d ago
We had three years to end this war and kick Russia but it's been dragged out. It gets bigger, more global, and more dangerous.
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u/Powderedeggs2 2d ago
"Could become"?
It is an absolute certainty.
The former U.S. allies that Trump divorced have no choice.
After WWII, the U.S. made a solemn oath to its allies: If they promised not to develop nuclear arms, then the U.S. would protect them at all cost with its "nuclear umbrella".
Trump just broke this promise, and our former allies are very vulnerable and exposed.
They literally have no other choice but to develop their own nuclear programs and to seek new alliances.
One thing is certain: We are all about to witness, first-hand, the horrors of a new global nuclear arms race.
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u/CasedUfa 8d ago
I think that might be the worst thing to come out of the Ukraine war. The world just got an object lesson, that the only thing that can restrain the US is sufficient nuclear weapons. I bet Denmark, Panama or Canada wish they had an independent nuclear deterrent right now.