BERLIN ¨C Germany¡¯s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, set European pigeons flying in circles when he suggested last month that, given rising mistrust in President Donald Trump¡¯s commitment to NATO, he wanted to talk to France and Britain about extending nuclear deterrence over Germany.
Warning that a ¡°profound change of American geopolitics¡± had put Poland, as well as Ukraine, in an ¡°objectively more difficult situation,¡± Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland suggested the same, while hinting that Poland, with its long history of Russian occupation, might eventually develop its own bomb.
Then Poland¡¯s president, Andrzej Duda, said this past week that it was time for the United States to consider redeploying some of its nuclear weapons from Western Europe to Poland. ¡°I think it¡¯s not only that the time has come, but that it would be safer if those weapons were already here,¡± Duda told the Financial Times.
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