sith@lemmy.zip to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoShould Germany aquire nuclear weapons?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up180
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minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 days agoWhy not? This is contingent on the US being an unreliable nuclear umbrella… And Germany deciding they will be part of the EU’s nuclear deterrence.
minus-squareJumi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 days agoI don’t like the idea being part of a country that could kill thousands or even millions of people at once.
minus-squareBirch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 days agoWell, no, but I’d rather be in the position of the stick holder than the potential pointy end receiver.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 days agoAny country is able to do that through conventional weapons though.
Why not? This is contingent on the US being an unreliable nuclear umbrella… And Germany deciding they will be part of the EU’s nuclear deterrence.
I don’t like the idea being part of a country that could kill thousands or even millions of people at once.
Well, no, but I’d rather be in the position of the stick holder than the potential pointy end receiver.
Any country is able to do that through conventional weapons though.
See the response of @cabbage.