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France to offer nuclear shield to Europe

www.telegraph.co.uk French nuclear shield could extend across Europe

Jet fighters armed with nuclear weapons could be posted to Germany as Emmanuel Macron discusses Ukraine’s defence with Donald Trump

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World News @quokk.au Timbits @lemmy.ca 4d ago

France offers nuclear shield to Europe

www.telegraph.co.uk /world-news/2025/02/24/france-to-offer-nuclear-shield-for-europe/

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Looks like the arms race with nukes are back on the table... Ugh, whatever it takes to keep Europe safe I guess... I'd rather not have this, but unfortunately it seems like the 180 turn by the US and Russia's agression is forcing Europe to do this.
- I'd rather have french Nukes from Macron than US Nukes from Putin-Loving Trump in Germany
- I'm not sure this really qualifies as an arms race. France doesn't have an arsenal like America or Russia, and this plan doesn't involve expanding the French arsenal or putting nukes anywhere that there aren't already nukes
  
  I wouldn't call it an arms race too, although, if France's nukes are being spread out, it would make sense to expand their arsenal as well.
- While macrons a more stable person than Trump or Lepen, he has almost as little respect for democracy and for the truth as them. And anyways in 2 years he's gone with significant odds that Lepen or Bardella get elected...
Good. The EU needs to start stockpiling nukes. The US is now a hostile foreign power.
More eu nations are going to need their own arsenal. If you don't have your own, you are at risk. Sad but true.
- The French have more than enough, there just needs to be a proper agreement at EU level to share more responsibility (and costs).
  
  What about a President Le Pen? Then the whole Trump problem repeats.
- i think poland will annonce a nuclear weapons program soon.
Jet fighters could be posted to Germany as deterrent as Emmanuel Macron

Cool, then the we can drop the Tornados and tell the Americans to GTFO when we built back our Military
It seems pretty clear at this point that one of the principal lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian war is "Having nukes guarantees sovereignty". It's unfortunate because nukes are obviously pretty fucking bad, but even if they aren't saying it, every nuke-less nation with a sketchy neighbor is trying to figure out a way to obtain strategic nuclear capabilities now, and anyone who was thinking about giving them up has stopped... and I can't say I blame them.

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