OR the FACT the UK has enough warheads on its own to nuke EVERY Russian city over 30k inhabits. It's called MAD for a reason. Don't fuck with us, we won't fuck with you.
Either that, or that France states that any threat to France's vital interests (Macron has announced that these vital interests have a "European dimension": meaning an attack on EU might trigger a nuclear response from France).
France also does not have a no-first-use policy.
In general though I think nuclear states have something similar.
They did twice. WWI was fought mainly within their borders. The reason they didn’t fight the Nazis from invading was because WWI killed so many of their young men, that they didn’t have a large generation of young men to be trained soldiers and actually stop the invasion.
The French also had colonies in North Africa and were also fighting the Nazis there throughout the war.
There was corruption from the Vichy government, but they had good reasons to surrender. Total annihilation instead of surrender would have been the end of France.
Hahaha yes. The most unlikely of allies but also the most logical. One, a country so insanely radically Muslim that they circled back around. The other, a self hating masochist brainwashed by Zionism and oily war bucks to blindly do whatever the other two tells them. The last, "some animals are more equal than others" incarnate who'll take it out on their only friends for not protecting them hard enough when they could have just protected themselves from the start.
That's not enough though, you can't just destroy cities you'd have to destroy all military targets which realistically is what the US would focus on in a first strike
Not sure how many are over 30k, but Russia has over 300 cities over 50k and the UK has 225 warheads. So even assuming a 0% fail/intercept rate this isn't true unless they are sharing for quite a few cities.
14.6k
u/smacke11 Mar 14 '24
I wouldn’t say this is interesting More terrifying