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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 75 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 53 points 3 days 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 17 points 2 days 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.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I find it weirdly reassuring that the muppets in charge are all hardcore capitalists and grifters and are the best guarantee they will push this as far as possible without destroying the planet or the economy.

Not saying there will be no death and destruction, but in the end they’ll just want to keep grifting.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DeepSeaString@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

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 4 points 3 days 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

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If somebody's not having kids because "nukes" then I suppose I'm happy they're not reproducing.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I imagine for most, it's the economy and enshitification of life in general.

[–] DeepSeaString@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah I think this is much more of the case because nukes can be more of a distant thought since it hasn't happened yet and people haven't directly experienced it. Money and the high cost to do anything now I would say is a much bigger driver as people are experiencing that everyday and can't afford to have a kid

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

plus russians started proliferating first.

What are you, 7?

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

they recently placed their nukes in belarus, wdym?

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Vive la France!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Beyond the environment?