• Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Germany doesn’t have nukes tho. The nukes in the country are all American property.

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      8 months ago

      Same goes for Belgium, Italy, and Turkey. But I won’t let that interfere with my appreciation for the meme.

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        8 months ago

        Officially we don’t. We merely have American military bases with American planes and suspicious payloads that the government refuses to comment on.

        I’ve wondered what that would mean in practice in different scenarios. If NATO command structure was atomized (RIP the city of Mons, no-one really liked you but thanks for the sacrifice o7), would the Belgian army make the call to fire ze missiles anyway? Or does the highest-ranked American make that call?

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            8 months ago

            Real answer: nothing, just regional banter

            Noncredible answer: That terrible, poor, almost-french city hasn’t managed to finish its train station in decades (it’s 1000 % over budget and 10 years late). This demonstrates why their population has therefore rightly been declared as expandable to protect Brussels.

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        8 months ago

        And missed off is the UK which has it’s own nukes^*

        ^* please ensure all targets are kept within a 500m radius of the firing submarine.