You’re only saying that you don’t know how NATO weapons sharing works. A bunch of major European countries don’t “have” nukes, but effectively have nukes because of weapons sharing and delivery capabilities. The idea being that if the flag actually goes up, cutting that bit of red tape and strapping a B61 onto a Viper or Lightning for a strike mission isn’t going to matter that much legally/treaty-wise, in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, what you are saying is more accurate. So you are saying that the reason they are still moving forward with the F-35s is to have planes compatible with American nukes?
Understandable given that they need an aircraft to carry their nuclear weapons.
You’re only saying that you don’t know how NATO weapons sharing works. A bunch of major European countries don’t “have” nukes, but effectively have nukes because of weapons sharing and delivery capabilities. The idea being that if the flag actually goes up, cutting that bit of red tape and strapping a B61 onto a Viper or Lightning for a strike mission isn’t going to matter that much legally/treaty-wise, in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, what you are saying is more accurate. So you are saying that the reason they are still moving forward with the F-35s is to have planes compatible with American nukes?
Yes, that was the main reason to buy them in the first place.
Yes, so that they can drop them on themselves when USA attacks