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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[–] 78 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 5 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.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, the world is completely defenseless without nukes.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months 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

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Vive la France!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

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

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