Washington has made Brussels another offer the Europeans are too slavish to refuse - even if it paints a giant target on their backs.
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There's an old treaty that, if you have signed up to it, says that you can't spread nuclear weapons. So, if you don't have any nukes and you sign the treaty, you can't get any. Simple as that. You'd think.
But leave it to the West, with all its 'values' and 'rules-based order' to, you know, not really
break the rules. Just bend them a little. Bend them so much, in fact, that just breaking them would be more honest and less embarrassing.
The agreement we are talking about is, of course, the 1968
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), according to the
International Atomic Energy Agency "the centerpiece" - no less - of much that is good, beautiful, and eminently reasonable. Namely
"global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament." Germany, for instance, is a long-standing signatory.
And yet, Germany and five other NPT signatories who belong to America's NATO client system have nuclear gravity bombs on their (formally, at least) sovereign territory, and their air forces stand ready to carry them to targets which would be - surprise, surprise - in Russia. The little piece of shyster-level legal sophistry used to cover for this obvious breach of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is called - wait for it -
"Nuclear Sharing." Sweet, isn't it? The world - or, perhaps, just Europe - may end in a man-made big bang of fire and fallout, but,
as they say in kindergarten 'sharing is caring.'By the way, it is obvious - and would have been to men such as Clausewitz,
York (both with some serious delay,
admittedly), or Bismarck - that, for instance, German officers worth their salt would have to prepare secret emergency plans for rapidly seizing those nuclear weapons on German territory from our American 'allies.' Without bloodshed, if possible; or with, if necessary.
Comment: There is only one way for a creeping tyranny to go: