What that response is, be it mobilizing tens of millions to be out on the streets to stage a revolution or coordinating community defense, I don’t know but we inch closer and close to this scenario.

I’m going to bring this up with my local chapter. There needs to be a global response.

Am I completely out of line here? Am I being hysterical? Probably but I’m so certain of this happening and I feel like the nuclear scare should be at a fever pitch right now.

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      European nations will be put under France’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ or Russia’s. this is not a statement of France’s rectitude, they’re simply the european nation with a nuclear triad that is not the US, and will have to be rallied around if the US plunges the world into nuclear realpolitik.

      it would be funny to see Napoleon’s dream over the heap of Europe finally achieved 200 years later tho low key

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      France is probably the only country more eager to use nukes than the United States. I believe they’re the only current UN-official nuclear power with an explicit first-strike doctrine. I also recall an anecdote shared somewhere about a French general or official’s disbelief at the extent of the US’s nuclear stockpile and nuclear retaliation/escalation planning, with the reason given being “it doesn’t take that many to remove Moscow from the map”.

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      France’s nuclear weapon’s policy is incredibly unhinged. Their plan for not letting West Germany fall to the Soviets was to completely glass West Germany with nukes.