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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | March 10th, 2025: Germany Wants Nukes & Hamas Floats Five-To-Ten-Year Truce With Israel
10 Mar 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, following President Trump’s sharp reversal of U.S. policies on Ukraine last week, European nations are now scrambling to find their own solutions to countering the aggression of Russia, with Germany and Poland eying a nuclear deterrent. Later in the show, the Hamas terrorist group has reportedly proposed a five-to-ten-year truce with Israel to end the war in Gaza, following direct talks with the Trump administration’s hostage affairs envoy. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Stash Financial: Go to https://Get.Stash.com/PDB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It's Monday, the 10th of March. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, following President Trump's sharp reversal of U.S.
policies on Ukraine last week, European nations are now scrambling to find their own solutions to countering Russian aggression, with Germany and Poland considering a nuclear deterrent. Later in the show, the Hamas terrorist group has reportedly proposed a five-to-ten-year truce with Israel to end the war in Gaza, following direct talks with the Trump administration's hostage affairs envoy.
But first, today's afternoon spotlight. As European nations begin to question whether they can rely on the US for military protection from Russia, leaders in Germany and Poland are now looking to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. I don't see how this could go wrong.
German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Sunday that he would like to see his country engage in talks with France and Britain, the only European nations, of course, with nuclear weapons, about sharing their stockpile, though he stressed that they were not a substitute for U.S. nuclear protection on the continent, and that's according to a report from Reuters.
For context, a number of international treaties bound Germany to only engage in non-nuclear defense due to their history during World War II. However, they do participate in NATO weapons-sharing arrangements.
Merz, whose center-right Christian Democratic Union won the largest share of the vote in Germany's federal election in late February, is hoping to form a viable governing coalition by Easter alongside the Social Democratic SPD party that would enable him to pursue increases in defense spending and potential nuclear sharing agreements with Britain and France.
On Sunday, Mertz said, quote, sharing nuclear weapons is an issue that we need to talk about. We have to become stronger together in nuclear deterrence. We should talk with both countries, always also from the perspective of supplementing the American nuclear shield, which we, of course, want to see maintained, end quote.
But it's not just Germany that has their eye on acquiring a nuclear deterrent. Mertz's remarks came just two days after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country was already engaged in serious talks to gain some of France's nuclear arsenal for protection. That's according to a report from the New York Post.
Tusk said Friday, quote, Poland must pursue the most advanced capabilities, including nuclear and modern unconventional weapons. This is a serious race, a race for security, not for war, end quote. The remarks followed the EU's emergency summit in Brussels last Thursday, which aimed to boost defensive spending among the bloc's members after President Trump indefinitely paused U.S.
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