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

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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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        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