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In case you missed it, the US just effectively abandoned NATO. What security you think it has, it doesn't. Which also means you can't depend on any ally that depends on the US, which is all of them.
No one is calling for an arms race, no one needs a thousand nukes. But the ability to erase the dozen biggest cities of an invader is the only effective deterrent these days.
Yeah USA, not France and UK. Why the need to share nuclear weapons with Germany? And until USA officially pulls out (that won't happen, the cost is too big for them too), they all are obliged to engage if any NATO member is invaded.
The idea of sharing nukes is really just a logistics solution. It's the same reasoning that led Ukraine to get rid of their nukes. Upkeep is expensive. Sharing with France and UK splits that cost, without having to create duplicate infrastructures. It's affordable nukes for all to balance the dual problem of, you have to have this thing you never want to use, and that thing you have to have is stupidly expensive.
Yeah never thought of that. Although i believe there are treaties prohibiting Germany to posses nuclear weapons. So i guess the only option for the nukes would be something with EU leadership in play.
Maybe, I'd have to wonder how many of those treaties are still validly in effect. Especially since they were probably set up at the same time Germany was partitioned after the war, and now it's not. So the entities in agreement might not exist. I'm pretty sure a treaty with East Germany is only worth it's value as a historical document these days.