Will the German nuclear commitment, and F-18 purchase, survive.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germ...tion-no-nukes/
Germany’s nuclear option: No nukes
BERLIN — Can Germany be trusted to drop the big one?
So far that question has been a footnote in ongoing coalition
talks between the three winners of the country’s September election. Yet for both the rest of Europe and the transatlantic alliance, it couldn’t be more explosive.
At issue is whether Berlin will continue to honor a decades-old commitment to drop atomic bombs on Russia in the event of an attack on the West.
That might sound like an issue better put to 1981 than 2021, but with Germany’s Russia-friendly Social Democrats poised to lead the next government, it once again looms over Europe and NATO.……