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Originally Posted by chico20854
Thanks for that pointer, an angle I hadnt really considered. (The language about the US having little option is straight out of RDF Sourcebook.) Hopefully today's post adds a little clarity, although I welcome discussion on its reasonableness!
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When I was writing the UK stuff I thought about that angle but always presumed that it would be a classic example of realpolitik in action and there was no way that the UK would want to invite either French nuclear retaliation or the possibility of dragging the French into the War in Europe as an enemy. Hence the line in my work that the British Ambassador in Paris delivers a note of protest and that's as far as it goes (although it was probably a strongly worded note of protest...)
In other words, forget NATO article 5, western Germany would be thrown under the bus.