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.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      58
      ·
      3 months 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.

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months 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.

    • DeepSeaString@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      41
      ·
      3 months 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        35
        ·
        3 months ago

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

          • j4yc33@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            14
            ·
            3 months 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
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            3 months ago

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

      • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 months 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

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 months ago

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

        • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          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

  • Hupf@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 months ago

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

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

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