🧵Quite strong critique from former US UnderSecState for Arms Control & NATO DepSG of how Biden admin handled AUKUS. Sub “deal may be a brilliant stroke, but it was done without strategic imagination. What was needed was a 3-cornered billiard shot — pivot to Asia, yes,…” 1/x
https://twitter.com/gottemoeller/status/1440376321905881091
“but keep our European allies on board and continue the fight against nuclear proliferation.
Instead, we have simultaneously enraged the French and blown apart 60 years of U.S. policy to minimize the use of highly enriched uranium….” 2/
Instead, we have simultaneously enraged the French and blown apart 60 years of U.S. policy to minimize the use of highly enriched uranium….” 2/
“Surely there is a way to keep our European allies with us — they are our rear-guard against Russia — and not lend encouragement to nuclear proliferators.” 3/3
(fwiw, I would put the writer in the category of people I would understand to be strong supporters of the Biden admin national security team, who very much wants them to succeed.)
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