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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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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 79 points 1 week ago

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

[-] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It should.

Had the EU been forceful in its deterrence, Russia would have never looked to Crimea, let alone start a war.

Buy alas, being spineless and weak gets you exploited.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 38 points 1 week ago

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

[-] DeepSeaString@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

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

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, the world is completely defenseless without nukes.

[-] j4yc33@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

It is a regrettable truth that the defensive posture of humanity, until everyone agrees to denuclearization, against nuclear warfare is the deterrance of Mutually Assured Destruction.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Go bring that sarcasm to Ukrainians - I'm sure they'll love it.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Vive la France!

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Jeez, not every piece of hardware needs to be migrated to the cloud.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They're certainly not on loan, they're moved to a new location.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Beyond the environment?

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