US reviewing plans to move nuclear weapons from Incirlik, report says

[jpak]

Source: Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. is reviewing plans to evacuate tactical nuclear weapons stored at Incirlik Air Base in light of ongoing tensions with Turkey, according to media reports.

The U.S. State and Energy departments were examining plans for potentially moving the weapons, which are roughly 250 miles from the Syrian border, The New York Times reported Monday, citing two unnamed officials.

The U.S. faces a dilemma over what to do with the weapons. Flying them out of Turkey risks further damaging the already troubled relationship with a longtime NATO ally, while keeping the aging weapons in Incirlik would mean leaving them in a country that Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned on Sunday was “spinning out of the Western orbit.”

While not addressing the nuclear issue, Esper said on Fox News that “the arc of (Turkey’s) behavior over the past several years has been terrible.”

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Putin smiles

yup

[MFGsunny]

1. Ya think??????????????????????????????? n/t

[Iliyah]

2. Esper is just as bad as t-rump . . .

I fear for the safety of the USA and the world. These so called "Christians" are gearing up for "end days".

[groundloop]

3. Gee, maybe this should have been figured out ahead of shit hitting the fan

tRump is such a fucking idiot, he has no clue what consequences his impulsive action have.

[NCjack]

6. Only Moscow Mitch or a majority of the GOP majority in the Senate

can stop this madness. But, their jobs are more important to them than the safety of USA.

[Javaman]

4. I mean, what could go wrong?

[Baclava]

5. "We'll just move them to Israel"....they already have 100, what's a few more?

Just a gut feeling

[IronLionZion]

7. Russia has wanted this for decades

During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets claimed since the US had nukes in Turkey, the Soviet Union can keep nukes in Cuba.

[paleotn]

8. Should have been spirited away a long time ago.

Turkey is and has never been Germany or Great Britain. I know the geography, but it's still too unstable to risk storing nuclear weapons there.

[roamer65]

9. Move them to Greece.

Start vacating Incirlik and other bases and move it all to Greece.

The Greeks will appreciate it.

[LeftInTX]

19. My hunch is they will go to our bases in Italy

We don't have bases in Greece.

I don't think Greece wants our nukes. (Based on historical relations)

[Bayard]

10. Why are they storing them in another country anyway?!

That's stupid as hell. You never know when circumstances are going to change in a heartbeat--like now. These will be going directly to Russia. Maybe that was the plan all along.

And why is the ENERGY dept involved for gawd sakes? This is a military situation. Don't care if it hurts Turkey's feelings, get those nukes and our people out of there NOW!

Sanctions? That's the only thing tRump can come up with, after he completely screwed the pooch?

[Jedi Guy]

11. DoE is involved because US nuclear weapons are their responsibility. N/T

[MosheFeingold]

13. Forward deployment

Is normal and necessary in a war-preparedness footing.

We learned not to put all our eggs in one basket one quiet Sunday morning of December 7, 1941 in Hawaii.

That said, there are other locations to move the weapons to keep Putin in his cage.

Poland, for example.

Yes, Israel.

And a host of other former Soviet satellite countries.

Ergodon has delusions of reforming the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate. He's not our friend.

[cstanleytech]

15. There is the Ukraine to and if we put a few bases there it might deter Russia.

[MosheFeingold]

17. Ha

Maybe.

Not sure if I trust them any more than Ergodan.

And there is such a things as "too forward" for forward deployment.

[cstanleytech]

18. I'm not talking about the nukes rather putting some armored troops as well as maybe

an airbase.

[LeftInTX]

16. It's on a joint USAF base in Turkey.

Our nuclear missiles have been there since the early 60s. They were removed as part of the agreement with the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the bombs came back a few years later.
It's a cold war remnant. We wanted to remove them in 2005, but NATO didn't want it. Then there was talk in 2016, but we decided to keep them because of Iran.

We also have nukes in other countries:



https://www.incirlik.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/

[dalton99a]

12. At least disassemble and remove the big component:

[Blue_Tires]

14. Who knew Trump would go THIS far

just to keep a hotel or golf course or clothing line or whatever the hell commercial properties he has in Turkey

[marybourg]

20. Yeah, who knew?

[Miguelito Loveless]

21. Why is this not THE lead story on every network

and every newspaper in the country?

[Polybius]

22. I'm smiling too

We have to move them, it was stupid to put them there in the first place.

[Historic NY]

23. Reviewing? WTF

there should have been one already in place. They should have been removed when the unrest in Turkey started .