This Is the Worst Idea Since

Rather unsurprisingly, it does not come from the Trump administration.

It comes from one Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, who advocates that the Nordic countries should develop a nuclear arsenal.

This is unbelievably fucking stupid.

Despite the withdrawal of Donald Trump’s military and economic threats against Greenland and EU members, the US government’s willingness to publicly contemplate territorial expansion at the expense of a Nordic NATO member raises profound questions for this region, which already borders Russia.

Partly shielded from full retaliation by its existing nuclear arsenal, Russia has launched a predatory war against its non-nuclear neighbour, Ukraine. Such behaviour by the existing nuclear monopolists fundamentally undermines the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) framework and it is now imperative that stable, responsible and capable Nordic democracies make clear – not least to the US Congress – what challenging the US security and nuclear guarantee in NATO could lead to, namely, reluctant nuclear proliferation in the Nordic region.

Nordic countries are wealthy, well-functioning democratic societies: They hence have a lot to protect and lose, which brings the accompanying political responsibility to publicly discuss also “nuclear what-ifs”. Nordic governments must have the courage for this public debate precisely because they can afford to develop and maintain the independent nuclear deterrence needed in today’s world in a manner threatening only to would-be aggressors. No one would seriously consider the Nordic region using a nuclear bomb capacity for anything other than deterrence purposes.

Yes, the descendants of the fucking Vikings are to fucking peace loving to fucking use fucking nuclear weapons as an instrument of geopolitical influence.

Just like the French, British, Chinese, Indians, and Pakistanis? 

……… 

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden should similarly and immediately announce their intention to withdraw from the NPT, which must instead be replaced by a new international nuclear framework facilitating responsible self-insurance by transparent democracies. Here, the Nordic region should take the lead.  

This guy is too stupid for the Trump administration.

BTW, this is his biography:

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a on-resident Senior Fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He has also worked with the Danish Ministry of Defence, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector.

I would suggest that my readers be extremely skeptical of anything that comes from either Bruegel or  the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

They employ this guy.