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Macron has repeatedly stressed that a French president would always have ultimate power to decide whether to use the bomb — the same applies to Britain and the US within Nato.
Together, British and French nuclear capabilities would at least make Moscow think twice about attacking, said a senior western official.
However, “what really influences Russian decision-making is the scale of US deterrence”, he said. Europe would need at least a decade of spending at around 6-7 per cent of GDP if it wanted to emulate that and acquire another 1,000 warheads, he added.
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Help Ukraine. Ukraine has competence in nuclear weaponry and energetics. Ukraine isn’t just a wheat growing banana-republic.
wheat-growing banana-republic
Wow.
Brits have for a long time had enough nukes to destroy Moscow (and Sankt-Petersburg?) sometimes this is called “Moscow criterion”. French nuclear arsenal is larger
That sounds like a reasonable amount of nukes. If the threat of losing one or two major cities isn’t deterrent enough, were in absolute lunatic territory anyways, and no amount of more nukes will deter any further.
The French have been always pretty explicit about it:
Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.
(De Gaulle in 70s)
I have never supported nukes before. Now I think; if you want to not be Ukraine, you need your own nukes. Noone is giving Ukraine nukes. They won’t give you nukes. They won’t use them on your behalf. No one wants to use them. But you need them non the less.
if you are surrounded by cooperating, well functioning democracies, then all is well. You can rely on the empathy of the voting poulace. Dictators, however, are unreliable.
Russia literally can’t beat the Ukraine, I’m fairly certain they can’t take a unified Europe
Russia is doing their best to sabotage the unity part.
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they always had these available
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Russia claims to, at least
Nuke can be tactical or strategic regardless of yield. Suitcase nuke in capital of most probable adversary is strategic, 5Mt Spartan ABM is tactical. Here it comes down to it being a clearly announced capability that is hard to mistake for anything else and is one step before SLBMs
it might also have lower minimum yield
