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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      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.

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

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

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

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        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.

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        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

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

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

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

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          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