He said a lot of other good stuff too IMO.
Finally someone taking the russian and slso the american threat seriously.
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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
FYI the EU is not about military, only about economics.
The UK has made the recent JEF with sweden and others for example, so no problem joining up militarily.
The EU is both. There are EU joint battlegroups and a stronger mutual defense clause in the treaties than NATO.
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Provide cover to Greenland.
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
Hm, I don’t think there’s such a thing as an “appropriate leader of the free world”. (Not even talking about how problematic the notion of “the free world” is.) We’re in this mess because one country has this much power over the rest of us. Replacing it with another (I’m saying this hypothetically, because France is in no position to gain as much power as the US anyway) doesn’t solve the problem.
Also, and I’m saying this as a French person, France has its issues, even though they’re not as cataclysmically bad as the United States’s problems right now. The far right is getting a lot stronger here too (as in many other countries) and I’m frankly worried about the future. Many people here are fighting against this, and I hope we can turn the tide somehow, but... never depend on one country.
Yeah, 2 countries should be world leaders. Moldova and Romania
Kazakhstan would like a word. They are a number one exporter of potassium. Also other countries are run by little girls.
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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.
It's mostly a she's-corrupt-and-shouldn't-hold-any-public-office thing.
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I read this as euroboros, and now I'm trying to imagine a European snake eating its own tail..,
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Nothing has to change as long as France is willing to end the world for Finland and Russia believes they'll do it.
They should oopsie whoopsie give Ukraine one. Seems fair since Ukraine only gave theirs up in exchange for American protection.
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.
Trying to imagine doing the Cuban Missile Crisis but we're replacing Castro, Kennedy, and Khrushchev with Zelenskyy, Macron, and Putin.
What could go wrong?
That order doesn't make sense, does it? It should be Castro=Zelensky, Khrushchev=Macron, and Kennedy=Putin ... but even then, it would only really make sense in the context of a prior action by Putin stationing missiles in points at map randomly Belarus. Maybe I am overthinking it, but I think the Cuban Missile Crisis was a different situation, especially as it additionally also occurred during a cold war.
Say it fell out of the plane.
The Americans have lost a few over the years.
Us too plz?
I'm sure we'll give you guys whatever you want in return, shit's getting really scary here in Canada.
We have a good chunk of the technology. We should eventually build our own. After all, India built their nuclear weapons from Canadian tech.
On May 18, 1974, India shocked the world by conducting a test A-Bomb explosion it called 'Smiling Buddha. ' The nuclear explosive was plutonium, obtained from a 'peaceful' research reactor – a gift from the Canadian government in 1956.
Yeah, but proliferation is bad, basically. The more nations have nukes the harder it is to not use them.
That being said, we already have the CANDU reactors in Ontario churning out plutonium that we just bury. I've heard it estimated we could have bombs in like 3 months if we wanted.
As someone working in the field, that's what makes everything happening the biggest US policy blunder ever. The NPT is dead in the water and it was completely preventable.
Trump and the GOP are cancer
They'll take Quebec off you.
Not as big an ask as you're probably thinking. In the end, they've always (just barely) voted to stay for the convenience. If we were to join the Schengen area and the single market going forward, and maybe even the EU itself, it wouldn't really be a problem if they were technically a separate nation within it.
It was a "shotgun marriage" by the colonial British in the first place, and as far as I can tell enthusiasm for the arrangement was never that high among ordinary Anglo Canadians, either. I hear "they should just leave so we never have to talk about it again" semi-often IRL.
I know there probably would not be that many issues with it but I was proposing it as a joke.
All these tuff guys had 3 years to do something and they just sat back and counted their money.
I thought they already had a warning shot doctrine.
Also, Putin has been sabre-rattling for years, so the debate has kind of already been ongoing.
Frogs being based as always.
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