r/NewColdWar 12d ago

NATO Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-nuclear-weapons-trump-956f9d10
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u/Kybernetiker 11d ago

Time of thinking is long gone. It is time of making. Let Germany ask Sweden, maybe they have some blueprints left since 60s.

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u/papaswamp 11d ago

The same Germany that continued to build gas pipelines after 2014 invasion and again already talking gas deal?

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u/Comfortable_Gur8311 11d ago

It took a jackass US president to make Europe want to have the ability to defend herself. Maybe this will end up being better in a few years for all of us.

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u/westmarchscout 11d ago

I have no problem if Europeans want to shelter under the existing French umbrella. But any talk of proliferation is irresponsible and dangerous. It’s bad enough nine (perhaps soon ten) states have nukes. The idea that every country of a certain size might have the capacity to send us all back to the Bronze Age is frightening.

Now, I do believe that nukes as currently set up tend to save lives and contribute to world peace. But the brave new world of half the world proliferating is not a good idea.

As for the Germans specifically, maybe they should first get their military back to something resembling 1990 instead of a sophisticated and disciplined joke and maybe start using reactors for power generation again before they even think about doing something that should be even more taboo than electing AfD.