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Originally Posted by Catfish
There are chances and risks.
On one hand the balance of power before depended on the american promise to use nuclear weapons if Russia tries to invade Europe. When this happend, the threat of worldwide nuclear death was on the table.
On the other hand since Trump this promise and also the transatlanic partnership is broken.
Then China comes into play, most of the US economy depends on China not pulling the plug. Trumponomics are building on borrowed time, and all the debt has to be paid, some day. The alternative is war.
All we can read and see shows us that Putin is convinced to win a regional war with "small" nuclear arms and conventional means, without the fear of the US intervening. "Thumbs up, Mr Trump!"
Other western(!) right wing nationalists try to destroy the EU and pull back from the NATO.
So it is in the best of Europe's interest and future to build up its own military. And this of course incorporates the building of own nuclear arms, not only for France or England. Question is whether the EU can be fast enough.
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So who pays for it, definitely not the likes of Malta
