In my most recent analysis, I explored NATO's broader nuclear-sharing posture, which will soon be expanded to include the Baltic states (specifically Lithuania), Poland and Finland. The piece focuses on the dangers of the European Union's lack of true independence, revealing a hard (geo)political truth that its leaders simply refuse to confront – they have traded real sovereignty for managed dependency. They want the prestige of being nuclear powers while remaining trapped in the Pentagon's wider strategy. That arrangement is perfect for the United States and its thalassocratic allies (primarily the United Kingdom), as it fully shapes the EU's (geo)politics, while the risks are largely confined to the "old continent", leaving America unscathed in case of a conflict.
Thus, Brussels becomes both a participant and a hostage in a potential confrontation it did not design and cannot control. Moscow simply has no other options but to read these moves as hostile preparation. No remotely serious state could do otherwise. A surge in nuclear-ready infrastructure, combined with French preparations for airborne nuclear delivery, sends a clear message that the political West wants usable escalation capacity,
