Give Ukraine Some Nukes!

With the U.S. stupidly suspending military support to Ukraine, Europe is stepping up. They've committed more funds, and are standing with their Eastern-European ally. The trouble is, as many pundits point out, Europe doesn't have the military manufacturing capabilities that the U.S. has. It will develop such, but that process takes many months, if not years. Can it manage to manufacture enough to support Ukraine in time?

As usual, all the pundits are missing one main thing, and it falls on me and my little (yet growing!) blog to point it out. There's one thing Europe can do which will halt Russia's war immediately, and force it to the table for peace talks, if not an outright withdrawal.

They can give Ukraine some nukes!

The U.K. and France are independent nuclear powers. (Other European nations have nukes, but they are owned and operated by the U.S.) If those two nations donated only a few of their nuclear missiles, Russia would have to stop dead in its tracks!

It's fascinating to me that all the pundits are saying how long it will take for European aid to have any effect. They're ALL using pre-1945 military analysis! Why, oh why, are we looking at warfare in a way that's 80 years out of date?!

Oh, Putin will scream and yell that a line has been crossed, that it's an act of war by NATO, that there will be severe consequences... blah, blah, blah. But we've heard this from Putin before. He said it when the U.S. committed financial support. He said it again when the U.S. and Europe committed tanks and planes. He said it again when the U.S. gave Ukraine long-range missiles. And in every case, he's done absolutely nothing.

Because he can't! Russia can barely afford to keep throwing all it can at Ukraine who, like Rocky Balboa, takes blow after blow and refuses to go down.

Meanwhile, Russia is on the verge of economic collapse. The Soviet Union fell when it could no longer afford to pay its troops well. It is not unreasonable to think that a new Boris Yeltzin may emerge to drive a single tank up to the entrance of the Kremlin, and depose Putin, thus giving Ukraine the victory.

So Russia is incapable of doing any wide-ranging retaliation against Europe. Hell, it can't even do any narrow-ranging retaliation. Putin is hanging on by his fingernails, and the time to bring the war to a swift end has come.

There may be treaty issues involved. The reason Ukraine is in this mess in the first place is because WE, the United States, negotiated to keep it from having a nuclear arsenal. In retrospect, that was a huge mistake. But we're very nearly in a post-treaty era. Trump has already ditched USMCA in his pointless trade wars with Canada and Mexico. Hell, Trump is threatening to pull the U.S. out of NATO entirely. So any non-nuclear proliferation treaty currently in place for Ukraine has been rendered moot by such antics.

HEY, Europe! Give Ukraine some nukes!

It should probably have been done three years ago.

Eric

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