In times when nuclear weapons can reliably deter any aggressor, every form of “trench warfare” is a deliberate waste of human life — likely with the intention of providing the traditional arms industry with business. As is well known, one can fire more shells than atomic bombs before the world ends.
Happy are those states that, lacking superior military strength, rely on their neutrality — today more important than ever. Either you possess the full range of means of warfare, including nuclear weapons, or you abstain and prepare yourself for occupation with the appropriate language textbooks — provided, of course, that the occupier is not a blood-drinking mass murderer (thankfully, there are hardly any of those left today, and even Putin, for all his faults, does not fall into that category).
Those who want to send soldiers with proverbial knives into a pistol duel should finally stop preaching about patriotism and “collective defense capability” — and seek treatment instead.
If the states that are threatened by Russia, or at least feel threatened, were to gain sovereign access to nuclear weapons and their delivery systems upon joining NATO, they should seriously consider the option of membership. However, this offer is not on the table. Germany and Poland have allowed themselves to be disadvantaged in this respect. They should urgently renegotiate or draw the necessary consequences.
It is up to the nuclear powers within the NATO alliance to determine whether there will be an independent Europe or a Eurasian Union. At present, the trend clearly points toward the latter — a Eurasian Union.
