Macron says France will allow temporary deployment of nuclear-armed jets to European allies (apnews.com)
from spitard@jlai.lu to world@lemmy.world on 04 Mar 20:06
https://jlai.lu/post/34045282

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that France will increase its nuclear arsenal and, for the first time, allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries, in a new strategy aimed at strengthening Europe’s independence.

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vivalapivo@lemmy.today on 04 Mar 20:35 next collapse

Why don’t these peasants want to have more kids they ask. Because of fucking this

DeepSeaString@lemmy.world on 04 Mar 20:44 collapse

Isn’t this a good thing though it allows Europe to be more independent and not get dragged into US wars. 

cygnus@lemmy.ca on 04 Mar 20:48 next collapse

Many on the left are under the misapprehension that being a pacifist must mean being defenceless.

Canconda@lemmy.ca on 04 Mar 20:50 next collapse

The fact that the EU needs to defend itself adequately is not mutually exclusive with how all this nuclear proliferation lowers the birth rate.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 04 Mar 20:55 next collapse

If somebody’s not having kids because “nukes” then I suppose I’m happy they’re not reproducing.

real_squids@sopuli.xyz on 04 Mar 21:05 collapse

France has like 300 warheads vs russian 4.5K, plus russians started proliferating first. I say let them do it, sow the wind and all that. Birthrate is gonna be shit anyway while we have billionaires

edit: if i were polish this nuclear proliferation would calm me down actually

saltesc@lemmy.world on 04 Mar 21:48 next collapse

Yes, it’s exactly that. It’s France showing the world that EU countries are just fine without the US, so no one—yku know who—should get any ideas.

vivalapivo@lemmy.today on 04 Mar 22:16 collapse

Not trying to make a political statement out of it. Just noticing the anxiety everything that happens in the world has produced over the last decades

magnetosphere@fedia.io on 04 Mar 20:39 next collapse

Yay. Airborne nukes. I’m sure that’ll calm everyone down.

real_squids@sopuli.xyz on 04 Mar 21:09 collapse

It will, look up how many times NK got invaded after they got nukes lmao. Nukes work because they’re scary. Would it work on the US? No idea, they seem to lack some very basic human instincts.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 04 Mar 22:20 collapse

Wow, that’s new, I’m pretty sure the coverage from before explicitly said no nuke loans. Or did that just mean permanently?