Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons

 https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-nuclear-weapons-trump-956f9d10

President Trump’s embrace of Russia is causing Europeans to rethink their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed Germany.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, said Berlin should start talks about expanding the French and British nuclear deterrents to cover Europe, according to an interview the conservative politician did with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung weekly.