The United States has six nuclear bases in five European nations, so what’s wrong with this?
“The United States has six nuclear bases in five European nations, so what’s wrong with this?”
1) No first use authorization
2) No tactical command authorization
3) Centralized command decisions and launch authorization.
Basically cedes first strike to the adversary.
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1. Those countries freely consent to hosting the nukes
2. There is democratic accountability inside those countries for the decision to host rather than one man’s unilateral sign off without any other part of government having a say in it.
3. Nobody’s pointing a gun at their leaders’ heads to convince them to say yes... Unlike Putin strong-arming Lukashenko to agree.
4. Those countries didn’t have a Budapest Memorandum style deal with Russia and the USA and UK, where all signatories agreed to keep nukes out of the country in return for guarantees against them ever being invaded or blackmailed.
5. European nukes are not targeted at Russia, or at any country in fact. That’s due to a long standing international agreement to the effect of, NATO and Russia are NOT at war therefore they don’t need to be pointing their nukes at each other. Guess which country is violating that convention... Of course, it’s Russia. Which announced it was going to target European cities preemptively, several years ago.
If Lukashenko dies in Moscow after being taken seriously ill while meeting Putin, after getting taken seriously ill while meeting Putin last time they met up, EU NATO is going to assume Putin bumped him off for being insufficiently compliant.
Which will then be the second (alleged) presidential assassination executed by Russia in Europe in the 21st century. And (allegedly) the fourth assassination attempted.
Better hope that it’s fake news. Because if Lukashenko dies and Putin decides it’s his right to install a new president without letting the Belorussians deal with it as an internal matter, Belarus will definitely make the 2013-2016 Donbas conflict look like a small playground squabble.
The United States has six nuclear bases in five European nations, so what’s wrong with this?
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Nothing - just consider that when Lukashenko kicks the bucket, the Poles will take possession of them and begins the process of denuclearization of what remains of Russia.