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9:27 13.12.2024 •
In response to Moscow's announcement last year that it would deploy medium-range ballistic missiles or non-strategic nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, Poland's then right-wing government said it was prepared to host North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nuclear weapons, writes The National Interest.
Specifically, Warsaw said it was open to making their U.S.-made F-35 Lightning II warplane fleet capable of carrying American-made B-61 nuclear bombs.
And it isn’t only NATO members, such as Poland, that are trying to get in on the nuclear escalation talk against Russia. The Ukrainians sound obsessed with the prospect of gaining (or, regaining, if you believe their propaganda) nuclear weapons from the West.
For starters, the idea that the West would allow for nuclear weapons to be stationed in — or more frighteningly, handed over to — Ukraine, a non-NATO member, is essentially crazy. Sadly, given how the Ukraine war has progressed, it cannot be overruled (especially since the Americans allowed their ATACMS to be used against Russia after having spent two years refusing Ukraine’s requests to use them inside Russia).
Regardless of which European country “goes nuclear,” whether it be the actual NATO member, Poland, or Ukraine, readers can no longer dismiss the prospect that the nuclear genie will soon be out of the bottle in Eastern Europe.
Yet, it must be stated that the Americans and their NATO allies have refused every chance to deescalate the conflict over Ukraine, leading to the point now where we are seriously considering the prospects of proliferating nuclear weapons to Poland or, possibly even, Ukraine.
Poland, as a NATO member in good standing, has a right to participate in the alliance’s nuclear-weapons-sharing program. At this point, though, it will further destabilize the situation, making any chance of a peaceful settlement between the West and Russia over Ukraine unlikely.
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