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by flagrant_taco 932 days ago
US nukes in Germany are actively controlled and operated by the US military. If the US dissolved you better believe Germany would have the technical know-how to begin operating those facilities and weapons themselves, if they wanted to.
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CrzyLngPwd 931 days ago
Forget about if the US dissolved. That's just noise.

What you are saying is that Germany could use US nukes, and so is de facto a nuclear-armed nation, and so is any country that hosts US nukes.

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fl7305 931 days ago
You first wrote:

> They were soviet nukes. They had as much control over them as Germany has over the US nukes parked in Germany.

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. We are talking about what happened after that.

You compared the situation with US nukes in Germany today. But that is not the same situation at all. The US has not ceased to exist like the Soviet Union did.

And if it did, it is far from obvious which US states will control the nukes in the mainland ex-USA. That would be the parallel with the Soviet Union and Ukraine/Russia. Not US nukes in a foreign state.

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flagrant_taco 931 days ago
What I am saying is that if the US dissolved, similar to the Soviet Union in your example, there isn't anything technically preventing Germany from being able to take over the nukes.

Do you not see a difference in comparing post-USSR Ukraine with Germany while allied with the very much alive US? Hosting US military installations that house nuclear weapons is very different from hosting abandoned nuclear weapons of a state actor that no longer exists.

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