When America WAS looked at the Overlord that WOULD come to the rescue of those countries undre its umbrella….
Every other country except the Brits and French where alright with NOT have nuke’s….
No LONGER….
With a Donald Trump smooching up to Russian Putin vs Ukraine?
European and other Asia Countries are concluding ?
They ARE on their own…..
Their Deterence should be ‘NUCLEAR BOMBS’…..
GOOD MOVER Donald!
You’re gonna make the WORLD MORE DANGEROUS…
But you do NOT give a Shit, eh?
What’s changed in the last two weeks?
“The Trump administration’s approach to Ukraine and Russia has significantly undercut allied confidence in the United States, including on extended [nuclear] deterrence,” Eric Brewer, a former director for counterproliferation at the National Security Council. “Not only is [Trump] pivoting away from allies but he’s seemingly pivoting toward Russia.”
The shift has shaken U.S. allies. France—the only NATO member with a nuclear arsenal that doesn’t depend on U.S. technology—hastened to shore up European deterrence by proposing to extend its nuclear “umbrella” to other countries.
“I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection of our European continental allies through our deterrence,” French President Emmanuel Macron said last week.
Leaders from Bonn to the Baltics quickly praised the idea.
German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said, “We should talk with both countries [France and Britain], always also from the perspective of supplementing the American nuclear shield, which we of course want to see maintained.”
But the French proposal leaves many questions unanswered. If France is to convince other nations to huddle under its nuclear umbrella, said one former senior White House senior official who worked on nuclear issues, Paris will need to launch a diplomatic campaign and be willing to share a great deal more information, including classified information, about nuclear decision-making and capabilities—much as the United States did in the 1960s.
In the past, similar proposals have led NATO allies to begin talks, but they collapsed over issues such as who would control the weapons, a former senior defense official said.
“There’s just a lot of questions here about what the French are offering, whether they may really be willing to provide a dual key with Germany for weapons if they put them on German territory for instance. I suspect not,” they said.
Indeed, soon after his initial announcement, Macron clarified that France would not share its warheads with other countries.
Uncertainty
France’s nuclear arsenal of about 290 warheads is larger than Britain’s (under 225) but far smaller than Russia’s (nearly 6,000). Neither has Russia’s diversity of warhead sizes and delivery systems. The U.K.’s small and expensive nuclear submarine fleet is undergoing modernization. France has air-launched cruise missiles. Russia has land-based mobile launchers, siloed ICBMs, bombers, and submarines.
There’s a reason Europe made no attempt to keep up with Russia’s weapons development. Western Europe has always relied on the vast U.S. arsenal to deter Russia.
But, the former senior defense official explained, France had a different deterrence strategy: hold just one or two major targets, like Moscow or St. Petersburg, in jeopardy….
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Should Seoul start hunting for the fuel to build such a device, Tokyo would likely launch a program of its own, they said, since Japan and South Korea are not treaty allies but do have hundreds of years of conflict history.
“I find it hard to believe you’d see a Japan-and-South Korea joint nuclear weapons development project,” said the former senior defense official.
All the officials we spoke to agreed that if one nation starts a nuclear-weapon program, others will likely do so as well.
“Proliferation will beget more proliferation,” said the former senior White House official.
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