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> Thank God for the French France has nowhere the military power to resist a country like the US. They have not invested in the military for a very long time a
by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Thank God for the French
France has nowhere the military power to resist a country like the US. They have not invested in the military for a very long time and most of their equipment is completely outdated.
- vrganj 7mo agoFrance has completely sovereign nukes and the only first-strike nuclear doctrine in the world. It has the military power to resist any country.
- rntksi 7mo agoIt's not the only country with that doctrine. See [1]. I think only China and India is no first use. [1]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-declaratory-policy-and-negative-security-assurances https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-declaratory-p...
- ekianjo 7mo agoFrance is never going to send a nuke to the US.
- polothesecond 7mo agoIt happened in the Simpsons.
- greenavocado 7mo agoThey already nuked America economically twice in the 20th century. The first time the French involvement in gold markets caused the Great Depression and the second time the repatriation of gold caused a financial system crisis which severely damaged the dollar and forced the US to decouple the dollar from gold entirely.
- ekianjo 7mo agoNuke means no return and MAD. Not a word you use lightly.
- vrganj 7mo agoYour attitude reminds me of this old meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-you-gonna-do-stab-me https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-you-gonna-do-stab-me
- OkayPhysicist 7mo agoFrance's nuclear policy isn't unique in that they are willing to launch a first-strike (all the serious nuclear powers claim to be). France's nuclear policy is unique in that they are willing to use nuclear fire as a warning shot: before they launch their full strategic stockpile, they'll (probably) erase a military base or aircraft carrier with a tactical nuke. That lower threshold to break the nuclear taboo is what's interesting.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoYup. No other country had an official Force de Frappe.
- estearum 7mo agoAh but alas: have you considered that the US is increasingly run by actual idiots? It turns out even Iran has the power to resist a country like the US.
- ekianjo 7mo agoIran is no joke. Everybody knew it and yet they went full ahead with it for some reason.
- exolymph 7mo agoIt's more that "military power" per se is not the be-all-end-all of conflict.
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoUSA has not gone full force into Iran. Need you be reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War What has happened to this site? Its all these leftie pro MENA talking points. You can disagree with the tone on the user above but the fact is NOBODY can stand up to USA military. t. Swede
- roncesvalles 7mo agoAmerica below the President and his appointees is an unbelievable dream team. That's why the whole machine works, regardless of who is at the top.
- tim333 7mo agoMaybe not but they have enough to be useful. They do have nukes - a US invasion of France would not be a good idea. On the more realistic end of things the French are able to provide military intelligence to Ukraine to counter the US president turning it off to help his mate Vlad.
- OkayPhysicist 7mo agoYou don't need a lot of nuclear weapons to be able to say "Fuck off, or everyone dies". You just need enough, and the widespread belief that you'd actually use them. France probably has enough, and is definitely credible in their willingness to use them.
- bdelmas 7mo agoAfter the failure against countries with no military might like Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan, and now Iran, I wouldn’t place a lot of importance into how much tech and quantity in the military plays a critical role into winning wars today.