Donald Trump’s election has prompted some deep soul-searching in Germany. One of the most intriguing areas is on nuclear weapons policy. In an oracular pronouncement seized on by the media, Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of the ruling Christian Democrats, said that if Mr Trump’s America “no longer wants to offer a nuclear security guarantee, Europe still needs a nuclear umbrella”. One of the publishers of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung then gave the screw another twist. Given Russian rearmament and a smallish Anglo-French panoply, let’s think the “unthinkable” — our “own nuclear deterrent”.
唐納•川普(Donald Trump)當選美國總統促使德國人對一些問題進行了深刻反思。其中一個很有趣的問題就是核武器政策。媒體揪住了執政的基督教民主聯盟(Christian Democrats)成員羅德里希•基塞韋特(Roderich Kiesewetter)發表的一則含糊聲明，他稱，如果川普領導的美國「不再想提供核安全保障，歐洲就仍需要一把覈保護傘」。之後，《法蘭克福匯報》(Frankfurter Allgemeine)一位發行人又在火上澆了桶油。考慮到俄羅斯重整軍備和英法單薄的武裝，讓我們考慮一下「不可思議之事」——我們「自己的核威懾」。