American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
The German deployment is part of a resurgence of deep-strike weapons
WHEN DONALD TRUMP pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019 most European states were aghast. They agreed that Russia had cheated on the cold-war pact, which prohibited all ground-based missiles (conventional and nuclear alike) with ranges between 500km and 5,500km. But they thought Mr Trump’s decision reckless and liable to start an arms race. Who in Europe would host such missiles anyway? Pretty much everyone, it turns out.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “OK boomer”
Europe September 28th 2024
- Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
- Austria’s xenophobic right edges towards victory
- France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
- Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
- American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
- A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
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