Well, the U S Congress is preparing to scrap the 1987 Washington Treaty on Mid-range Nuclear Systems which, when signed, led to a massive reduction in US nuclear missiles in Europe.
Note the highlighted last line of this quote:
The treaty, signed on 8 December 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led to a significant reduction of US nuclear weapons in Europe. The nuclear-armed mid-range Pershing II missiles, whose stationing in Western Europe five years earlier had triggered the largest peace demonstrations to that point in history, were withdrawn.
The danger now is “that the US will construct new missiles and station them in Europe,” warned the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A major shift would be set “into motion” and Europe would stand “on the brink of a new nuclear era...nuclear mid-range missiles were the horror of the Cold War...thirty years on, the spectre has returned.”
The reason for the potential ending of the treaty, according to the newspaper, is the “deep freeze” in US-Russia relations and announcements by both sides of intentions to “comprehensively modernise their nuclear arsenals.”
Characteristically, the explosive reports by the German press have been totally ignored by the US print and broadcast media.
[source : Washington is preparing for nuclear war in Europe, WSWS, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/02/nato-s02.html, 2nd September 2017]
Hmm. I wah, wah, wah, wah wonder where all these new American nuclear missiles will be stationed, considering that Germany has just asked the USA to move all their nukes out of Germany?
But also note that Russia is doing the same thing!!
I bet the Trumpers are lovin' this!
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