Go France!

- Zelensky and Macron, 2022

France to consider protecting European allies with its nuclear arsenal, Macron says

France will consider extending the protection of its nuclear arsenal to its allies, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday, while warning that Europe needs to be ready for the United States to not “remain by our side” in the Ukraine-Russia war.

“I’ve decided to open the strategic debate on the protection by our deterrence of our allies on the European continent,” he said in a live broadcast on his official social media channels, during which he stressed the need for Europe to continue assisting Ukraine and strengthen its own defense.

“Our nuclear deterrence protects us, it is complete, sovereign, French from end to end,” Macron said of France’s nuclear arsenal. “This protects us much more than many of our neighbors.” ...

It is a nightmare that it has come to this, but the blame lies squarely on Trump, and the Republicans who support him, for not only abandoning Ukraine but actually working to doom them.

I have French ancestry from both my mother's and father's family (and also Scots/Irish), and I feel a bit of prise that France is standing up to Trump and Putin for the sake of Ukraine.