Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?

• sith@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good luck using them unless you’re allowed to. Might be an option if you have a couple of months. Though you would have to defend against two nuclear powers during that time.

  Also good luck using your US made jets and critical components.

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure if Germany and the US were on so bad terms that they wouldn’t be trading, Western civilization would just collapse. The NL of ASML fame is a very, very close German ally.

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    • sith@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I believe that with the new US administration (and popular US opinion), one could go from good terms to bad over night. I would not trust that the US adhere to article 5 if things become serious for real. Why should they start a nuclear war just because their semi-friend forces itself upon a woke central European country? Things were completely different during the cold War.

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, you’re thinking, what if the US invades Germany?

        So you see, there is one reason we keep the French around beyond baguettes and wine, it’s their ability to turn all major US cities into a radioactive wasteland regardless of what happens to the rest of the EU.

        And the French are willing to do that and are obligated to beyond NATO as well.

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• Birch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well it actually is, terrifyingly so even.

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