Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
But Friedrich Merz cautions such a move could not replace the US’s existing protective shield over Europe
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as if things happen naturally, this text doesn’t mention any nuclear disarment agreement.
I doesn’t look like us Brits can completely break with the US in military or intelligence terms, at least for the time being (if not foreseeable future). But closer military co-operation with the rest of Europe clearly has to happen, assuming maintenance of our nuclear capability isn’t completely reliant upon the US.
The Chinese are going to build their biggest embassy in Europe in London about half a mile or so from the US embassy. I’d guess the UK will continue trying to play a mediating role.
Just curious from an American here -
Why should the EU have treated the UK better during brexit? It was clear at the time that they were weakening Europe and themselves on the back of things like immigrant fear stoked by far right and Russian propaganda.
The people of the UK that voted leave or didn’t bother to vote fucked themselves didn’t they?
They did everything they could to weaken the UK. To punish the UK for deciding to leave the EU.
No quarter given.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for the UK to give no quarter back now that the Germans are asking for the protection of our nuclear weapons.
Now, to some degree the UK is going to remain aligned with the US. Our military and intelligence capabilities seem to be very much intertwined. The alternative for the EU, a UK completely aligned with the US, Russia, and a friend of China, is the alternative.
Perhaps they should have been reasonable when the UK decided to leave the EU.
They shouldn’t. The “No” campaign ran flat-out lies about what Britain would be able to get out of negotiations, claiming we “hold all the cards”. We did not.
Off topic but not too much:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
Countries like germany and italy already have nukes and received new ones a couple years ago. It’s technically against the law but governments bend the law as it please them.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’d love it if the yanks accidentally make Europe get our act together.