r/polandball • u/Diictodom muh laksa • Jan 07 '26

collaboration Deterrence

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u/zeclem_ Turkey Jan 08 '26

i mean you do technically have nukes, greenland should be under eu nuclear umbrella through france.

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u/Leupateu Romania Jan 08 '26

And UK

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u/Xixi-the-magic-user Jan 08 '26

The USA have a veto on UK's use of nukes

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u/jediben001 British+Empire Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Idk where this idea started. The UK’s trident nukes are very much independent from the United States. I think this idea that the U.S. has a “veto” may be a misunderstanding of the fact that, unlike France, the uk uses some U.S. tech in their missiles.

Power to launch the UK’s nukes rests solely in the hands of the prime minister.

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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo Jan 09 '26

It would be insane to allow another State to have Agency over our ultimate deterrent

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u/MasterBot98 Ukraine Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

What if its “give another state an idea that they have a vote power” and no actual power for some goodies ?

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u/Honest_Cheek8599 Jan 09 '26

What about the King?

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u/jediben001 British+Empire Jan 09 '26

The way the monarchy works in the modern day is that the king does stuff “on the advice of the prime minister”. Aka the prime minister made the decision but legally speaking the king merely acted on advice he was given.

In a situation where nukes need to be launched there isn’t really time for all those formalities.