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The United States deployed nuclear weapons in Western Europe in the 1950s, growing the arsenal to about 8,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War. The number of nukes stationed on the continent was cut down dramatically in the 1990s but the weapons were never eliminated completely, to the chagrin of Moscow and some of Washington’s own allies.
The Trump administration appears to have quietly removed approximately 50 of America’s B61 nuclear gravity bombs from their Europe- and Turkey-based warehouses, leaving about 100 warheads stationed across the two regions, a report by the Congressional Research Service indicates.
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WNU Editor: What caught my eye is the above report is this .... the number of bombs at Turkey’s Incirlik base dropped from 50 to about 20!!!
The two reports that outline these cuts are here .... Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons (Congressional Research Center Updated March 16, 2021), and here .... United States nuclear weapons, 2021 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).
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Reducing the amount of nukes in Turkey is just common sense. That base gives Erdogan way too much leverage over the US as it is.
Agreed, Daniel. The situation was worrisome from way back when. There seems to be no need for such weaponry being there anymore. That airfield is a target on multiple screens.
That 20 are still left....TRUMP! The heavy in this situation.
Look at it this way. Trump got us a 60% solution.
Now, if the doddering dementia case can get the remaining 40% removed, we will have success.
Surely Joe can do 2/3rds of the work Trump did. After all he is a spry old man, who loves dashing from the shower with his junk flapping and grabbing the dog by the tail!
I remember how many on this blog disused the Turkish nuclear situation and we all suggested to pull the nukes out of there because of Erdogan 's ongoing NATO violations.
Glad trump did what we all wanted back then. Those who are intellectually consistent and morally not corrupt will agree that this was a good move. Fred will of course hate it. That little perv and intellectual feather weight :)
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if trump so good why did he lose by over ten million votes?
Liar
Fred,
Fraudulent votes are not legal votes.
When Biden Insulted Putin on National TV
Read the above linked article, if you can.
Right. Now let’s get the rest out of Turkey.
And after the nukes we have
1st: Our people who can be killed, wounded or taken hostage
2nd: Our tech air plane avionics.
Erdogan will not give up power. He is crooked enough and has enough people to jail political opponents, abuse the police and courts and rig elections.
Unlike in 2011 you do not hear of the World Bank or IMF saying they can help out. They cannot. Too many people are hurting and they are hurting because the elites upset the apple cart to maintain and usurp more power with their COVID lie.
Erdogan ran ride it out and
* hope there is no recession or depression
* ride out a depression
* voluntarily leave office
*coup
* go to war
He ain't ever leaving office voluntarily. So ...
I don’t know where I heard it, but I thought the deal with Turkey was that US could not remove atomic bombs from bases without Turk consent.
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