If you no longer have the ground troops and aircraft, and the treaty is defunct, is this the reemergence of battlefield and theatre nuclear weapons to make the risks of starting a conventional war too great?
If these weapons were based in the Baltics and Russia, would it serve to deter or encourage an attack by Russia? The USA and NATO already claim Russia has developed such weapons again - and deployed them to Kaliningrad.
Trump review leans toward proposing mini-nuke ? POLITICO
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