Poland can go near the threshold with gathering dual use machines, designating/vetting engineers/scientist, etc, reducing the time from the decision to first warheads-and honestly wouldn’t be surprising if this already is in the works.
does Paris have a say? genuine question. we have not had to think about this before. Warsaw can plausibly argue this is beyond what others might dictate to it. Use the magic phrase "strategic autonomy", even
When I was studying in France, I remember a professor on European integration saying that you had to expect Germany to spend less on defence proportionally, otherwise it would have a much bigger military than France
Yes but it can blow up the whole balance in Europe - and any coordination - if Germany and Poland would go ahead with any plans by themselves. Great power rivalry in Europe has never disappeared, it has only been subdued by US + NATO and bureaucratised by the EU…
Non-proliferation anybody? Wasn’t there about 7 metres of international treaties on which most of Europe’s security architecture is based? I guess that would not come undone without major fallout. [sic]
Very similar to what I tried to express here the other day.
My sense, as I wrote in the following post, is that the unifying threat of both a hostile Russia and adversarial US might be enough to overcome the internal barriers.
But as you say, disrupting the balance of power would then derail that.
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Everybody in Trump’s crew was born after 1945.
Ok, Poland only? (Germany will never do it anyway.)
My sense, as I wrote in the following post, is that the unifying threat of both a hostile Russia and adversarial US might be enough to overcome the internal barriers.
But as you say, disrupting the balance of power would then derail that.