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Provoking the Russian Bear for a few worthless dollars: POLAND would gladly host American nukes if Germany refuses, US envoy claims, fanning ‘Cuban missile crisis 2.0’
A frontal view of four B-61 nuclear free-fall bombs on a bomb cart © US DoD / SSGT Phil Schmitten
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As the US ambassador to Germany – and acting spy chief – tried persuading Berlin to keep hosting US nuclear weapons, his colleague in Warsaw suggested Poland would be willing to take them instead, an act sure to provoke Moscow.
“If Germany wants to diminish nuclear capability and weaken NATO, perhaps Poland – which pays its fair share, understands the risks, and is on NATO’s eastern flank – could house the capabilities here,” Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher tweeted on Friday.
Georgette Mosbacher✔@USAmbPoland
If Germany wants to diminish nuclear capability and weaken NATO, perhaps Poland – which pays its fair share, understands the risks, and is on NATO’s eastern flank – could house the capabilities here: https://cutt.ly/SyWQERl A credible nuclear deterrent remains needed | U.S. Embassy & Consulates in GermanyBy Richard A. Grenell US Ambassador to Germany Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Germany sat on the front lines of a possible nuclear conflict. So Germany and its NATO Allies came together to…de.usembassy.gov72210:47 AM – May 15, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy392 people are talking about this
She was commenting on the statement by Rick Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany who is also the acting director of National Intelligence, issued on Thursday, urging the authorities in Berlin not to weaken NATO by seeking the removal of US nuclear weapons from their soil.
“The purpose of NATO’s nuclear share is to keep non-nuclear member states involved in the planning of NATO’s deterrence policy. Germany’s participation in nuclear share ensures that its voice matters,” Grenell wrote. “Will Germany bear this responsibility, or will it sit back and simply enjoy the economic benefits of security provided by its other allies?”
While Mosbacher’s quip may have been nothing more than an attempt to bolster Grenell’s argument, her replies were flooded by Poles eager for the nuclear redeployment to happen – albeit none of them representing official Warsaw, just yet.
Only a few voices cautioned against the idea, such as former US Marine and weapons inspector Scott Ritter telling Mosbacher she had “no sense of history” and calling her idea “one of the dumbest” in the world.
Scott Ritter@RealScottRitterReplying to @USAmbPoland
You have no sense of history, do you. Simply one of the dumbest ideas in the world. By the way, the Russian Hogh Command thanks you for making it easier to overrun and seize this so-called nuclear deterrent. Google 1st Guards Tank Army.202:09 PM – May 15, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacySee Scott Ritter’s other Tweets
Mosbacher also made headlines in Moscow, where it was noted that moving the bombs to Poland would destroy the final vestiges of the Russia-NATO Founding Act, the 1997 treaty which declares that “NATO and Russia do not consider each other as adversaries.”
Admittedly, this sentiment has been repeatedly rejected by NATO itself, from the 1999 war against Yugoslavia intended to send Russia a message, to this week’s editorial by the alliance’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, citing “Russian aggression” to urge Berlin to keep US nukes.
Jens Stoltenberg✔@jensstoltenberg
Our goal is a world without nuclear weapons, but as long as these weapons exist, #NATO’s nuclear deterrent remains essential to protect peace & freedom. Read my commentary from @faznet: http://bit.ly/2WNM8w3 Germany’s support for nuclear sharing is vital to protect peace and freedom – Op-ed article by NATO…This op-ed article was originally published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 11 May 2020.nato.int2637:48 AM – May 11, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy160 people are talking about this
This is not the first time that Mosbacher – a former cosmetics executive who entered diplomacy during the Obama administration and was sent to Warsaw by President Donald Trump in 2018 – has made headlines in Moscow. Back in January, she endorsed the Polish revision of WWII history that claimed Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union “colluded” to start the war by invading Poland.
While it is unclear whether her tweet is an official State Department position, it would not be entirely out of line with the Trump administration’s aspirations to station US troops in Poland permanently, while dismantling nuclear treaties with Russia.
Last year, the US shredded the 1987 INF arms control treaty in Europe, and seems to be on track not to renew the last remaining nuclear pact with Moscow, the 2011 New Start, scheduled to expire next February.
If the US moves nuclear warheads to Poland, this could result in a rerun of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union reacted to US nuclear deployments in Turkey by sending its own missiles to Cuba. After a standoff that almost escalated into nuclear war, both Washington and Moscow stood down and pledged to withdraw their missiles.
Bryan MacDonald✔@27khv · May 15, 2020
The big story in Russia, tonight? Comments from the US Ambassador to Warsaw, Georgette Mosbacher, saying that the Americans could relocate their nuclear weapons from Germany to Poland.
The sort of dangerous posturing that could very quickly lead to a new Cuban Missile Crisis.
Georgette Mosbacher’s observations follow talk in Germany’s governing (in coalition with the CDU) SPD of asking Washington to remove its nukes from German soil.
Any US deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland would be a *major* violation of the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act.484:25 PM – May 15, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy24 people are talking about this
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