A German political scientist called the US nuclear umbrella an impossible dream for Europe.

On January 20, German political scientist Johannes Farvik called the American nuclear umbrella for Europe a "chimera" and a crazy idea of the Europeans.

"I believe that the American nuclear umbrella has always been more of a chimera than a reality, because I do not believe that the United States would risk the nuclear destruction of New York or Washington for the sake of Berlin or Warsaw," Farvik said.

He also stressed the "madness" of the notion that the Europeans can adopt the "shaky concept of American nuclear deterrence with their own nuclear weapons."

"The European Union doesn't even have a common foreign policy, so there can be no common security and deterrence policy," the political scientist said.

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On January 16, the deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany, Siemtje Moeller, announced the resumption of disputes over the extent of the use of French and British nuclear capabilities within the framework of pan-European deterrence. It is implied. as explained, the creation of a nuclear umbrella in the future, which will be independent of the resources and weapons of the United States.

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