Germany Pushes Back on Trump: Cold War U.S. ‘Nuclear Shield’ Deal Now in Jeopardy

President Trump’s withdrawal from the INF treaty is based on a spurious claim (such claims seem to be the new norm with the Trump’s newly revamped Neoconservative administration) Russia is somehow violating it. Russia invited US officials to come and inspect it’s missiles in order to clear up the matter – but the Washington has flatly refused, opting instead to ramp-up hostilities with Moscow. Trump’s repeated public berating of NATO member states for “no paying up” towards their 25 GDP military spending target – has been viewed by some German officials as an attempt to humiliate Berlin on the world stage, whilst simultaneously strong-arming Germany into an adversarial position against Russia, as the US attempts to sabotage Germany’s Nordstream 2 joint energy venture with Russia.

All of this has now led German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners to reconsidering the country’s Cold War era ‘Nuclear Shield’ agreement which allows the US to park its nuclear weapons on German soil. If this situation plays out to its end, it will be a major development in terms of reconfiguring a 70 year-old US grand strategy which provides for the collective defense of Europe.

Incredibly, as yet there has been no comment from NATO head Jens Stoltenberg on this crucial issue, which could mean a quiet panic has set in in Brussells as eurocrats struggle to find a solution to what appears to be a fundamental break in transatlantic solidarity on an age-old alliance. Previously, Stoltenberg has been hiding behind the Trump administration’s dubious INF Treaty threats against Russia. At a February meeting of the 29 member NATO-Russia Council in Brussels, Stoltenberg reiterated Washington’s demands to Moscow’s deputy foreign minister to destroy a nuclear-capable cruise missile system before a Feb. 2 deadline. As expected, Moscow did not roll over and comply, leaving euro hawks in a precarious position – stuck between Washignton’s Neocon conclave and a threatened Russia – as well as the very real prospects of a new East-West arms race.

Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) have already appointed a new commission to re-evaluate the country’s current strategic security positions. The move indicates that the NATO consensus might be fracturing, as center-left forces across Europe re-evaluate the 21st century relevancy and benefits of the Cold War military alliance.

Initially, in the aftermath of WWII, the US had arranged that German aircraft would be used to launch U.S. nuclear weapons in the event that the Soviet Union ever attacked Western Europe. In addition to this, the US has been allowed to use German as its primary European military staging ground – something which many pundits and analysts believe is akin to Washington using Europe as doormat in its pursuit of unipolar global hegemony.

This development could be extremely pivotal in the development of European Military Unification aka an ‘EU Army.’

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