Should Europe or not? After French President Emmanuel Macron proposed the creation of a European nuclear deterrent in a speech at the L’École de Guerre in Paris, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke out against it at the Munich Security Conference. “We already have a nuclear defense in Europe – that of NATO,” said Stoltenberg. The NATO chief had already announced the expansion of NATO’s deterrence and defense capabilities in January. The reason for this: since the end of the INF Treaty, Russia has stationed nuclear-capable SSC-8 missiles in Europe.
