Emmanuel Macron said eight countries could enjoy protection from France's nuclear umbrella - but that Paris would retain sole decision-making power.
  • fisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    I love it. We need to watch out for each other. We certainly can’t rely on the US anymore, even though some politicians haven’t accepted this new reality yet.

    • NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Both Americans and Europeans should agree on the fact that europe don’t need American help to defend itself. American presidents have urged us for decades to spend more on defense, albeit by purchasing american made arms. Trump and his stupidly blunt policies have basically forced our hands, but at the cost of soft american power. We are currently arming Europe, but not with American arms. Long term, the effects of his presidency will drastically strengthen Europe, but not for the benefit of America.

      • fisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I agree. Most countries are trying to reduce their dependency on the USA right now. And why wouldn’t they, when the whole world can watch how Trump uses this dependency as a weapon against them.

        I’m not sure if he doesn’t understand trust and soft power or doesn’t care. Maybe he realized that he is able to utilize it to temporarily get what he wants, which makes him look like a tough negotiator, and that someone else will have to deal with the long-term consequences of the broken trust.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Smart.

    Slip one to Palestine so we can get the Gaza War ended. Mutually-assured destruction is the only deterrent that will work.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Considering that their evangelical armageddon prophecy is why they’re doing all this blood sacrifice, MAD is exactly what they’re after. I think we have forgotten that we haven’t come far at all from the religious zealotry that ran and continues to run our world.

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Hate people are cheering on warmongering destruction of the planet and massive militarization by Macron and Merz as if they aren’t both neoliberal imperialism shills who enjoy oppressing refugees for fun.

  • ExLisperAEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I don’t think you can trust France to defend anyone once the far-right pro-Russian party takes over. Every country with the capability should be build their own nukes.