To many in Europe, Trump has punched holes in NATO’s nuclear umbrella

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This is a new day in Europe.

The Hallson years of unprecedented American commitment to defend Europe against Russia have passed.

To live here – at least when Donald Trump is in the White House, there is some more transactions. And the stake cannot be high.

US Vice President JD Venus told decision makers in Munich in February that Europe should “take extensive steps to provide its own defense.”

Europe’s response so far is to pledge to increase costs for home and Ukraine, which monitors the purchase of European -made weapons. But another radical solution has also been presented: a European “nuclear umbrella.”

If the United States has always been Europe’s older brother, France and the United Kingdom are also a long -standing nuclear powers – and some European leaders are wondering if the ultimate connection in Moscow is closer to the house.

Although most of the world’s nuclear weapons are US or Russian -owned, France has about 290 nuclear warheads, the UK 225 -US -designed trio missiles.

In recent weeks, a surprising comments of European leaders’ comments have been seen that strengthen their joint defense under the British or French nuclear umbrella, as Washington’s reliability appears.

Earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron “promised to open a strategic debate about protection through the prevention of our allies on the European continent.

His comments came after Germany’s next Chancellor Frederick Mirza was called when he called for talks with France and Britain to increase nuclear security.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the French proposal was “no new” and had come several times in the conversation, and threw his support behind the idea.

Nuclear weapons, such as Sweden and Denmark, have historically welcomed France’s addition to European allies.

Since General Charles D. Gol established France’s nuclear power in the late 1950s, France’s program has been proudly independent to keep Paris into the World Decision Center-“from the French to the end,” as Macron explained it.

But for decades during the Cold War, France told CNN, a historian of France’s Inter -Disciplinary Center for Strategic Studies (CINES), CNN.

The UK has not made any public offer to further distribute or change its nuclear protection. But its warheads promise to the NATO command under the United States, thus already offering strategic protection to European allies.

Some leaders are still hoping for a strong US support.

On Thursday, Poland’s President Anderzage Doda called on Trump to deploy US nuclear weapons to Poland, and called the move to lay down his own nuclear missiles in Belarus in 2023.

“I think it is not only the time has come, but it will be more secure if those weapons were already there,” Doda told the Financial Times.

Nuclear historian Yanke Punk told CNN that without Russia’s weapons, France has only been able to “threaten the strategic retaliation,” says, saying, adding that the opponent is very difficult to work as a prevention. ”

Former Deputy Commander of NATO forces in Europe, retired General Michelle Yakov, told CNN, that the relatively reduced size of the chest of France’s nuclear war compared to the United States, even in the West’s generals, told Retired General Michelle Yakov, a former NATO commander in Europe.

In addition to its great power, the size and diversity of American weapons gives it another important benefit in the nuclear war: the ability to minimize any thermonocular exchange. The United States, “we can use what we call graduation reactions,” said Punk, instead of removing all its weapons.

On the contrary, with French nuclear weapons-powered submarines and nuclear weapons bombers, it was historically intended as a last resort if the Cold War Russian forces threatened the French homeland, potentially forcing the Soviet to force the Soviet Sciences.

These are the differences like those that make any European centers an important challenge for the nuclear umbrella.

“One thing that European people do not have is the nuclear culture. They do not understand it because they have always thought that Americans will do it.” I suspect Macron is thinking, if I dare to say, whoever wants to teach him a nuclear dialogue. ”

Macron has suggested the allies to participate in the country’s secret nuclear exercises to look at France’s capabilities and decision -making.

But it is also clear that he is not getting his “nuclear button” to allies or Brussels. He told France in a national address to France that the decision to launch a nuclear strike would always remain and remain.

The British Army has been very active in increasing the nuclear detective IQ in NATO, said Lucas Kolisa, director of the Russian -based Russian proliferation and nuclear policy program.

This means that if Macron’s proposal becomes a reality, “France will not step into the completely empty slate. These are the countries that have been covered by decades of expanded nuclear barrier,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Nuclear Affairs.

He emphasized that the important thing is that the United States has not said that it is removing the commitment to protect the NATO allies.

This week, a nuclear -capable American bomber flew to the Central Stockholm on the occasion of a one -year anniversary of Sweden’s NATO affiliation.

Meanwhile, a February Report The Federation of American scientists pointed out, “Three years of evidence accumulating documents and observations,” which indicate that the United States is preparing to be re -appointed to nuclear warheads in the UK for the first time in 15 years. CNN contacted the US Department of Defense for comment.

Such a move shows how seriously Washington sees the rising temperature in Europe.

For Magton, Magton has no comparison with European weapons to Moscow.

According to Russian Colisa, promoting Europe’s nuclear weapons “is a question of many years, if not decades,” investment and development.

But Detrus is not just a question of the number of missiles. It is also necessary to demonstrate the operational credibility of Europe’s nuclear forces.

Kolisa said that further co -operation with the allies around the nuclear forces would be a strong promotion to prevent. This may cause airplanes to fuel aircraft from allies in support of French bombers or anti -submarine war capabilities to protect British or French nuclear sub -plans.

Investing less than decades in the British Army, Questions have been raised Following the prevention of the UK’s traditional and nuclear weapons offer, especially depending on the US supply chain.

In the last eight years, the UK has publicly acknowledged two failed nuclear missile tests, one of which in Florida’s far -flung waters, when dummy missiles did not fired according to the intention.

The British Prime Minister Kerr Starr promised last month that the government rapidly described the “largest investment in defense spending since the Cold War” in the dangerous world.

Other non -nuclear European allies are increasing their spending on traditional weapons, analysts say.

The church said, basically, “nuclear weapons are not a magic tool.”

He said that any real obstacle from Russia would need traditional and nuclear powers, and under Trump, “the question is, can you trust US commitment and joining?”