French President Emmanuel Macron has the solution for putin’s daily nuclear sabre-rattling.
With putin acting like a delusional, playground bully throwing daily nuclear tantrums, and Trump constantly threatening to abandon America’s allies and pull the US out of NATO, Europe has been left in a seriously tight spot.
But French President Emmanuel Macron isn't just sitting around waiting for the worst to happen. He’s stepping up with a massive power move to show the Kremlin that Europe can bite back.
France is using its own nuclear arsenal to keep putin guessing and finally secure the continent with or without Washington.
The Telegraph:
“This is the moment Emmanuel Macron showed Vladimir Putin he means business. Standing in front of a new nuclear submarine singing La Marseillaise, the French president conveyed one clear message: if it has to, France will use nuclear weapons to protect Europe from Russia.
Europe can't defend itself from putin without the United States. But Donald Trump keeps threatening to pull the US out of NATO.
We've had no support from, essentially no support from NATO.
Mr. Macron thinks he has the solution.
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France and Britain are Europe's only nuclear powers, but only France has airborne tactical nuclear weapons, which can be launched from its Rafale jets.
Now Mr. Macron is signing deals with countries like Britain, Germany, and Poland, making it possible for the jets to land on their bases in a plan he calls "forward deterrence”.
But planes will move in secret around Europe, creating a strategic ambiguity that will force putin to think twice before attacking. Allies will perform joint nuclear exercises in a show of strength.
Now, tactical nuclear weapons are less powerful than the big missiles launched from submarines like Trident or the French subs, but they are more flexible. Fire a nuke from a sub, and it's the starting gun on World War Three. But a tactical nuke can be a warning shot.
Now France's nuclear deterrent is not part of NATO, which means putin has to think about French decision-making, even if he can ignore the US for some reason. This is all creating another European-controlled line of deterrence behind the US shield.
Working together, France and Britain can buy precious time for the rest of Europe and themselves to rearm with conventional weapons, including precision long-range missiles capable of striking deep within Russia if vladimir putin ever dares to attack”