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Borrowed Weapons and the Nuclear Compensatory Reflex

Original: Borrowed Weapon: Strategic Insolvency and the Nuclear Compensatory Reflex

A new commentary titled 'Borrowed Weapon: Strategic Insolvency and the Nuclear Compensatory Reflex' is circulating in global security discussions. The piece argues that states facing strategic insolvency may compensate for conventional weakness by leaning on borrowed nuclear capability, a dynamic analysts warn could heighten proliferation risks and destabilise regional deterrence balances at a time of rising great-power tension.

Why now: The argument about nuclear-dependent weak states resonates amid current geopolitical instability and proliferation concerns.

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