For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the earliest and perhaps most (in)famous examples of this was the deployment of PGM-19 “Jupiter” nuclear-tipped MRBMs (medium-range ballistic missiles) in Turkey, which caused the so-called “Cuban Missile Crisis” (after the USSR responded with its own missiles in Cuba). Washington DC asked Moscow not to publicly reveal the presence of American missiles in Turkey, which the mainstream propaganda machine (ab)used to the fullest, presenting the crisis as a supposed Russian attempt to one-up the US. In reality, the agreement stipulated that both countries withdraw their missiles from Turkey and Cuba, respectively. That’s how the so-called “Cuban Missile Crisis” was resolved.

However, although Washington DC withdrew the missiles, its nuclear weapons were never removed from Turkey and around half a dozen other NATO member states. To this day, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Turkey still keep these weapons, officially as part of the so-called nuclear sharing policy. At the moment, there are at least 100 B61 variable yield thermonuclear gravity bombs stored in bases from Kleine Brogel in Belgium to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The ability of these weapons to be used for nuclear war is rather limited, as they can only be delivered by aircraft, which is much less expedient than various types of missiles. However, that doesn’t mean the US and its vassals and satellite states in NATO won’t expand the scope of their delivery systems in the foreseeable future, including in the vicinity of Russian borders.

It seems not........

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