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Should France and the UK share their nuclear weapons with the rest of Europe?

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Even beyond that, what we’re talking about is still ICBMs, which functionally amount to a Space Program. And the EU has been fumbling the bag on advanced aeronautics practically since its inception.

They already have a space program, so it's more like a new rocket, really.

They’re trying to guard against the possibility that Russia throws another 400k of its conscripted civilians into a land war along the Carpathian Mountains to what possible end?

Is it really only Russia that you folks worry about? Trump wants Greenland. China will eventually want something.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If European states rebuild a serious modern army, in another twenty years they'll be bombing one another.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Why would you think that?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not like they don't have armies to start with. So I guess that happens either way?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

This period of Pax Europa has been an anomaly, to be sure. But Balkanization appears to be coming for them all.