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European nations wanting “insurance” against Russia are looking to France and Britain to share their nuclear deterrents.

European countries that spent decades sheltering under America’s nuclear umbrella are now openly discussing a new form of protective alliance against Russia built around French and possibly British atomic weapons.

It’s a direct response to Donald Trump eroding confidence in NATO’s Article 5 common defense pledge by trashing allies, questioning U.S. commitments and turbocharging doubts with threats to seize Greenland.

Leaders in Sweden, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands — some of Europe’s most pro-American countries — have publicly confirmed in recent days that they're holding conversations about a European nuclear deterrent to complement the American version.

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[-] atropa@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Nice try , There is no comparison between Ayatollah .and Charles de Gaulle.

Ayatollah . will go down in history for very different
events that have had a major impact on the Middle East today.

Mass murder of his own people

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world -3 points 12 hours ago

Khomeini nailed that the US is the Great Satan. A fact that much of the world outside of the West is in agreement with.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

No nation is "the great Satan", that's just religious swill. Some nations are good, some are bad, many are Grey. I'll give you the US is bad, but no need to bring religion into your geopolitics. That's always bad and often leads to genocides.

[-] atropa@piefed.social 4 points 11 hours ago

Khomeini was also mass murder of his own people ,right or not ?

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

If you're scoring by mass murder. I think the US wins hands down

[-] atropa@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I think ,you need to read the sentence again, which part of the sentence you don't understand ?
"Own people" perhaps ?
I've seen Iran in 1970 , I've seen it in 2024

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You saw the Savak in 1970? If you knew history you'd know the Shah, an ally of the US and israel, was a brutal dictator who killed and tortured thousands.

But the MSM isnt mentioning that, or the brutal sanctions in place by the US which has caused enormous suffering in Iran, because it doesn't fit the neocon agenda of convenient humanitarianism

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