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.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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Slip one to Palestine so we can get the Gaza War ended. Mutually-assured destruction is the only deterrent that will work.
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.
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.
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.
It kan haz Canada too?
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.
"We should simply let imperialist tyrants do whatever they want!"
France has been lending out nukes for ages already.
Who has French nukes?
The hell? Is 290 not enough?
Not when we (The US) have 1200-6500
Give one to Iran. They need it to stop the terrorists.
Wait, are we pretending that the Iranian government are good people now?
No, but we aren’t pretending the US are good people either.
The Iranian government? No. The people, OF COURSE! You know who the best people to deal with Iranian problems, are?
Bad people can get attacked by terrorists.
You mean the guys who when under attack just fired at civilian targets in nearby countries that didn't attack them? Yeah... no.
Sounds like the primary targets were US bases and some allied infrastructure targets like oil production facilities. The article mentions one missile struck a residential area after being intercepted. So unlike Israel, they're not targeting schools and hospitals.
that is bog standard behavior though; the US did it this week.
give iran nuclear power generation and bombs and tell the US to get its bases the fuck back to its own country.
Oh I'm not saying the US and Israel are the good guys either. It's just bad guys against bad guys dragging us all in their pissing contests.
Forget it. I was hours out of date here.
I can’t tell without looking at that link if you’re talking about Israel or the US.
I know right. Bad guys against bad guys.