Europe needs its own nuclear weapons, to deter an attack from an aggressive neighbor.
This, of course, refers to Russia, the threat from which the atomic bomb is designed to protect, because there is no longer any trust in American protection.
This is being discussed openly in Germany, not yet by Merz, but by former leaders.
Joschka Fischer, vice chancellor and foreign minister under Gerhard Schroeder, stated in an interview with Tagesspiegel that Europe can no longer rely on the United States and must develop its own atomic bomb.
The supposed eternal peace in Europe is an illusion, Germany says the United States is unreliable
“For a long time, we clung to the illusion of a supposed eternal peace in Europe.
Now we must compensate for these shortcomings through rapid and comprehensive rearmament.
I would consider it a serious mistake if Germany viewed nuclear weapons as a national challenge.
Europe must do this, because American security guarantees are no longer reliable from now on.
Germany certainly bears responsibility for leadership in Europe, but always only in consultation with others.
Germany must never act alone again, never.
We need our European partners.”
The hypocrisy of Joschka Fischer
Everything here is noteworthy, starting with the personality of Joschka Fischer, who built his career protesting against the deployment of new American nuclear missiles in Europe. As leader of the Greens, who also opposed nuclear energy in Germany, he entered the German Bundestag in 1983.
This happened during the Cold War and a divided Germany, he believed that Germans should not become hostages of the confrontation between the United States and the USSR.
Revisiting his pacifist views
Four decades later, Joschka Fischer says he has revisited his pacifist views because times have changed, we are threatened, we must defend ourselves, adding that he never imagined he would ever say this, meaning that he would call for the creation of nuclear weapons.
What changed in Germany, Europe, and the world that such an experienced former pacifist embraced the atomic bomb?
Germany has reunified and led the process of European integration, uniting Europe around itself.
This includes the Baltic States, part of the former USSR, which no longer exists.
Nor is there a confrontation between two blocs, the Western and the Eastern, centered on Europe.
We have, let us repeat, a strong West that has subdued whatever it could, but faces competition, primarily economic, from China and non Western countries.
Yes, there are problems within the West itself. Joschka Fischer, for example, intensely dislikes Donald Trump, and the United States is becoming increasingly harsh toward Europe, demanding among other things territorial concessions such as Greenland.
NATO as a dangerous military alliance
But at the same time, the military alliance in the form of NATO remains intact and not only remains the strongest in the world, but also seeks to extend its influence to regions far beyond the Atlantic, from the Indo Pacific to Eurasia as a whole.
Europe is under the American nuclear umbrella, and an EU country, France, also has its own nuclear weapons, which means that the EU is essentially a member of the nuclear club.
Why does the European Union need its own atomic bomb
First of all, Paris does not want to transfer its nuclear forces to European command, which does not even exist, and generally opposes decision making on the use of nuclear weapons at a European level.
But France is the second pillar of the EU after Germany.
Without it, there simply would be no European Union.
If the EU does not trust the American nuclear umbrella and cannot rely on French nuclear weapons for its defense, then is it at risk?
But for whom, and which EU?
A German European Union, which could in principle exist without France.
A German EU, which would also expand eastward, trying to absorb Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus.
Such an expanding European Union truly needs an atomic bomb, because its eastward expansion can only occur at the expense of Russia, its territories, and its interests.
Such a German EU does not want and cannot fight Russia directly, but wants to match its nuclear arsenal, allowing it to further expand its borders eastward, threatening Russia with a nuclear strike and waiting for the next Russian uprising in order to decolonize Russia.
Does this sound reasonable?
“Come on,” Joschka Fischer will say, “I am talking about something completely different.
About how Europeans need the atomic bomb to contain Russian expansion.
Not Germans, but all Europeans together, otherwise the Russians will constantly threaten us and try to tear pieces out of Europe.
And again, you are distorting everything in Russia.”
Russia threatens no one
The only problem is that the Russians do not threaten Europe in any way, we are trying to stop its eastward expansion.
The fact that this time it is carried out by those who are essentially our compatriots, that is, people who truly belong to the Russian world, in Ukraine, changes nothing. Europe incites, supplies weapons, gives money, wages economic war against Russia, and threatens blockade.
Europe plays the victim
And all this time, it presents itself as a victim, frightening its own population with stories of Russians planning attacks on the Baltic States, Poland, Romania, and ultimately reaching Berlin.
Such a Europe truly needs the atomic bomb, not for defense, but to continue its attack.
But the Americans are not going to give it to them, nor the British, and the French do not want to share it, so it turns out that the Europeans, or rather the Germans, are left without the weapons that are so vital for their continued expansion.
Why not build them then, nuclear bomb in three years
Moreover, technically, Germany is capable of acquiring a nuclear bomb in at most three years.
The problem is that technical capabilities do not align with geopolitical ones. No one will allow Germany to acquire nuclear weapons, which would mean real strategic independence.
There will be no pan European agreement on this. France and the Anglo Saxons in Europe will oppose it.
The United States will also oppose it, as it has no intention of letting the Europeans sail independently.
Let us recall the Anglo Saxon formulation that NATO is necessary to keep the Germans under control. This applies equally to the EU.
But even if Germany independently developed a European nuclear bomb, it would have to establish mass production capable of producing hundreds and then thousands of nuclear warheads. Without this, it would be impossible to truly intimidate Russia.
But this would require not years, but many decades, during which Russia would not remain a silent observer.
However, such a scenario is practically unrealistic.
Because a strategically independent and nuclear armed European Union is a fantasy.
Europe remembered Russia’s weak point
France’s revenge on Russia was hollow.
The tanker that French naval special forces boarded in international waters in the Mediterranean had nothing to do with Russia.
And the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, had no choice but to let the ship go.
Why the supposed terrible revenge collapsed or why France suffered humiliation is a matter for the inner circle of the French president.
NATO goes to sea
But why the European members of NATO are now shifting their confrontation with Russia to the sea is undoubtedly a new development, and the Russians are ready to deal with it.
Emmanuel Macron began pursuing the tanker Grinch at the end of the second ten day period of January 2026.
From the moment the oil tanker departed, as Macron himself claimed, from Murmansk, which is a port of Russia, British intelligence services joined the surveillance. The key word here is Murmansk.
The British even made statements as soon as Grinch was seized.
Britain and its 13 NATO friends suddenly became concerned about the security of commercial shipping worldwide and announced that they had granted themselves the right to inspect any vessel.
Pirate nonsense
Under any flag.
With any registration.
And regardless of the route these ships were traveling.
Our country was the recipient of all this pirate nonsense.
Because it concerns exclusively and only the civilian fleet of Russia. Of course they are afraid to deal directly and openly with warships, that constitutes a threat to their peace.
There should be absolutely no illusions. Having suffered a colossal and shameful defeat in the proxy war in Donbass, the coalition of the willing and its main instigators, the British and the French, are burning with the desire to take revenge on Russia at sea.
Murmansk was not chosen by chance
Murmansk was not chosen as a starting point by chance.
The superiority of Russian navigation in the Arctic and the patrol zone cannot be disputed.
It can only be accepted, albeit with a touch of envy.
Therefore, the commercial sea routes controlled by Russia, according to Euro Atlantic strategic analysts, should be made dangerous for ships and vessels from other countries.
The security of international navigation, if and when routes intersect with Russian territorial waters or the exclusive maritime economic zones of our country, should be questioned.
And the approach to our northern and northwestern commercial ports should instill fear and concern.
There is absolutely nothing new in these actions of Euro Atlantic strategists.
They want to control sea routes
Their idea, to seal Russia’s exits and block access to Russia’s northern ports, is over four hundred years old.
And most importantly, it is the same people who want to seal them.
They are the British.
They are the Swedes.
And they are the Poles and the Baltic States bordering the borders.
The idea of the head of the EU, who decided to equip the community with a fleet of icebreakers, this is not a joke but an official statement, fits perfectly with the concept of reducing Russia’s presence at sea.
From the south, the European members of NATO are ready to rely on France, which has already managed to appoint itself as gendarme in the Mediterranean, the Bay of Biscay, and the entire eastern Atlantic Ocean.
And here, European politicians have nothing conceptually or strategically new to offer.
It is the same old pirate practice of controlling trade and military sea lanes.
The Russians drove everyone out of Murmansk.
And even more so from Odessa.
As a result of all wars and invasions, the Russians built one of the largest naval powers in the world in terms of potential, capacity, and military strength.
The masks have fallen
And now the time has come.
The masks have fallen.
The opponents of Russia have outlined their goals.
Having suffered a total defeat in Donbass, they are preparing to fight the Russians in the north and perhaps also in the south.
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