I would definitely be in favor of France taking the US’s place on the world stage. They’re a more appropriate leader of the free world anyway
Last time France got to be a superpower they enslaved the west of Africa.
can it be literally anyone else please? I worry that is the French get any more pompous they’ll explode so fiercely that we won’t need any nuclear weapons
They should oopsie whoopsie give Ukraine one. Seems fair since Ukraine only gave theirs up in exchange for American protection.
Say it fell out of the plane.
The Americans have lost a few over the years.
Just having one would be more dangerous then having none. It’s not enough for actual deterrence but it is enough for Russia to “justify” using its arsenal against them.
Oops, here’s a couple dozen, looks like we mistakenly labeled a shipment.
He said a lot of other good stuff too IMO.
Finally someone taking the russian and slso the american threat seriously.
UK has typically bowed to US.
France may our only Security Council Veto hope.
Bowed? I think its more of a strategy, to try to win the Americans back, act as a bridge. IMO it is too late. But even if it is only a 1% chance, its worth it. Meanwhile UK is investing in defense, standing by allies and being unwavering in its support for Ukraine.
UK isn’t in the EU anyway
I think the UK has to have US permission to use our nukes so they’re useless now
What in the world makes you think a sovereign nation (UK) has to ask permission from the US to use their military arsenal?! We might have agreements in place, but no way in hell does the US control the UK’s nuclear launch capability.
It’s not as straight forward as asking permission, but you should read about Trident as a missle platform.
To say the UK has a genuinely independent nuclear deterent is not as clear cut as you’d think. But that’s not the same as being absolutely beholden to the US.
That all said, we really do need to swap to the french missle system, but that will take time to retro fit the subs.
The UK outsourced maintenance of the delivery mechanism (the missile body) to the US.
The warhead is built & maintained by the UK.
The missiles have a life span so eventually they will stop working without US help.
There is a joined nuclear planning group of NATO where France is not and never was part of (while the UK is) and thus, preserving independence in that matter.
I know he did some shitty stuff domestically, but hes one of the biggest eurobros.
Agreed. I’d like to see him in Von der Leyen’s job once she’s out.
I can’t take her seriously, the EU needs a strong face and she’s not doing it for me. This isn’t a woman VS man thing, I thought Merkel was tougher than Scholz to be fair.
i meeeeean idk much about french politics, but from everything i heard the biggest shit show was the pension thing, and that was more an individuals being annoyed about getting less, but the pension situation was unsustainable so they either do something or it all imploded and macron tried to do something and people hated it because it effected them personally but now they’ve still got to deal with it and it’s just getting worse?
He’s consistently been the president of the wealthy, he could have chosen to make wealthy pensioners take some of the financial burden but decided to put it all on the working population.
He also deleted a wealth tax, consistently slashed benefits for unemployment and social minimums.
On a personal level, he’s had too many dealings with quite a few people implicated in criminal scandals (Sarkozy, notably) to be clean.
All that to say, I can appreciate his talks about Europe, but he’s not been a good president for the french workers, and it’s likely to lead to the far right being in control in a couple years, which could be a disaster for said European project.
Frogs being based as always.
