The Büchel military base in southern Germany where it is thought that some US tactical nuclear weapons are stored. DPA
Christian Hacke, National Interest: Why Germany Should Get the Bomb
A country’s crisis diplomacy can only be successful when it is backed by hard military power.
Considering the politics of Donald Trump, Germany can no longer rely on the protection of the United States. According to political scientist Christian Hacke, Berlin has no other choice: Germany must become a nuclear power.
The U.S. president’s semi-authoritarian attitude and his willingness to make friends with the enemies of democracy has exacerbated doubts about whether the West is at risk of breaking up.
President Donald Trump treats once valued allies with scorn and castigates them in public. Under the battle cry “America first,” allies have suddenly become a burden. President Trump is trampling on the core Western values and interests and in so doing, he is gambling away the role of the United States as the leading power of the West. Instead he is chumming up with dictators and squandering America’s reputation as a responsible global power. He is giving up crucial influence, which could lead to alarming shifts of power to the detriment of the free world.
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WNU Editor: This is a terrible idea. Aside from violating a number of international treaties prohibiting the development and deployment of nuclear weapons, if Germany should go down this road it would create a European crisis that Europe has not seen since the height of the Cold War. It would not only be Russia reacting negatively, it would also be most of Europe.
