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Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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It was a mistake, because it makes it harder to build up a nuclear weapons stockpile. Which Germany desperately needs.

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With your history surely the far right wouldn't get that amount of power ever again... right...? Oh... wait....

Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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Was that not clear from the beginning? Nobody ever claimed it was for strategic purposes, the narrative was "we don't like nuclear anything, we will get rid of it we can bear the costs".

So I don't think you could even call it a strategic mistake, but masochism maybe? Especially while keeping the exit date in the height of the fallout of a real strategic mistake, the dependence on cheap russian gas.

Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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It was a mistake, because it makes it harder to build up a nuclear weapons stockpile. Which Germany desperately needs.

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Have you ever thought about how to best prevent the US or Russia from pushing a country around?

Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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post #7

Was that not clear from the beginning? Nobody ever claimed it was for strategic purposes, the narrative was "we don't like nuclear anything, we will get rid of it we can bear the costs". So I don't think you could even call it a strategic mistake, but masochism maybe? Especially while keeping the exit date in the height of the fallout of a real strategic mistake, the dependence on cheap russian gas.

My money is on Russian meddling, to make Germany dependent or Russian gas. Which happened. Until the US blew up the pipeline, and now Germany is dependent on US gas.

Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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With your history surely the far right wouldn't get that amount of power ever again... right...? Oh... wait....

The far right in Germany now calls themselves pacifists :-D Nevertheless, I would feel much safer living in a EU that has serious nuclear deterrence capabilities.
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