Germany right-wing says Germany should become nuclear power
Gottschalk, the Alternative for Germany’s parliamentary spokesman on financial policy, argued that the long-standing postwar approach of relying on Washington for Europe’s defense has effectively collapsed. He said the situation surrounding Greenland shows that “there are no friendships between states, only interests.”
“And the interests of the United States are fundamentally different from ours and from Europe’s. Precisely for this reason, we must once again take the defense and security of Europe into our own hands… Germany needs nuclear weapons,” Gottschalk wrote on X on Sunday.
He also called on Germany and other EU countries to build “the strongest military” equipped with “the best weapons.” While acknowledging the difficulty of establishing a unified European defense framework due to political divisions and historical tensions, he said such an effort is the only viable route from dependence toward sovereignty.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to gain control of Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, claiming it is critical to US strategic interests in the Arctic and declining to rule out the use of force. European leaders have rejected any change to Greenland’s status, creating a major rift between the US and its NATO partners.
Tensions have escalated further after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on eight European countries unless the US is permitted to purchase the island, prompting coordinated European warnings of a “dangerous downward spiral.”
On the nuclear issue, Germany remains bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and officials in Berlin have consistently stated that the country has no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons. Under the Two Plus Four Treaty that enabled German reunification, Germany is also prohibited from hosting nuclear arms in territories that were part of the former East Germany.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said last year that Germany could theoretically build a nuclear bomb “in a matter of months,” but stressed that such a scenario was “purely hypothetical.”
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