Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but this is the only US news outlet that's translated and published this essay, is it not? Does it strike you as strange that this has received so little attention in the US media?

Why Germany Should Get the Bomb nationalinterest.org/feature/why-ge…

Recently, the headline “Do We Need the Bomb?” ran on the front page of Welt am Sonntag, which is one of Germany’s largest Sunday newspapers. The author is Christian Hacke, a respected and mainstream academic, and obviously, his answer is "Yes."

If I'm right, there's been no other mention of this debate in any mainstream print newspaper in the US, even though it is hard to imagine what news could be more important. A German Bomb is anathema to most German politicians. It would take an earthquake to change that.

But when such a prominent fixture in Germany’s foreign policy establishment can make this argument, in all seriousness, in a mainstream German newspaper, it means we are only one earthquake away.

And we’re sitting on an active and rumbling fault line. Has anyone considered that this could actually happen if Europe suffers another--say--7.0 quake on the (logarithmic) Political Destabilization Scale?

Or what the ramifications of that would be? If not, I suggest it would be worth a bit of thought. When I first read that, I began thinking, "What could cause a 7.0 quake?" One of the scenarios that came to my mind as "likely to happen before 2019" is now happening.

To wit: nytimes.com/2018/08/13/wor…. It may not immediately be obvious how this could quickly move from "sad, but faraway," to "7.0 on the PDS," but think about it.

Here's another scenario that would easily be a 7.0:

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I have eaten
the Baltics
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for NATO

Forgive me
they were delicious
so small
and so cold

A lot of scenarios that were unimaginable only recently are now "still unlikely, but no longer unimaginable."

I think that article, and what it signifies, deserve more debate and discussion.