Eh, France has too much to lose even in a minor nuclear exchange (Paris), they would probably only use them if their soil was threatened (in which case you have their funny warning nuke policy). We need a full umbrella from all the EU to all the EU, with keys in the hands of different rotating states/officials to make them more than just elected bureaucrats.
Same for the UNSC, probably, a nuke closet to point at when stupid countries do stupid things. Fascists don’t respect anything else.
The French nuclear forces are ocean and air based. Thus they could easily cover the entire EU and the French have often asked other EU members to contribute to finance this expensive endeavor… with very little success.
But I don’t see much difference between France or any other EU member state. They are all densely populated and would suffer hugely from any kind of nuclear exchange. The entire point of nuclear weapons is that it never comes to that though, and the French nuclear weapons are well equipped as a deterrent due to a theoretical second strike capability.
Fine, yea, it’d be good to just chip in to get ready-to-go state-of-the-art coverage. Maybe they hold back because they don’t want to be so beholden to a single country like France at least until the US becomes completely unreliable.
Eh, France has too much to lose even in a minor nuclear exchange (Paris), they would probably only use them if their soil was threatened (in which case you have their funny warning nuke policy). We need a full umbrella from all the EU to all the EU, with keys in the hands of different rotating states/officials to make them more than just elected bureaucrats.
Same for the UNSC, probably, a nuke closet to point at when stupid countries do stupid things. Fascists don’t respect anything else.
The French nuclear forces are ocean and air based. Thus they could easily cover the entire EU and the French have often asked other EU members to contribute to finance this expensive endeavor… with very little success.
But I don’t see much difference between France or any other EU member state. They are all densely populated and would suffer hugely from any kind of nuclear exchange. The entire point of nuclear weapons is that it never comes to that though, and the French nuclear weapons are well equipped as a deterrent due to a theoretical second strike capability.
Fine, yea, it’d be good to just chip in to get ready-to-go state-of-the-art coverage. Maybe they hold back because they don’t want to be so beholden to a single country like France at least until the US becomes completely unreliable.