Xavier Chatel@Xavier_Chatel_
Xavier Chatel
RT @yarotrof: 🇫🇷☢️🚀 “What it brings is a new complication for the adversary, because it brings another layer that the Russians will have to read,” said President Macron’s strategic-affairs adviser, Xavier Chatel.
French officials argue that the French nuclear deterrent is more credible because the security of European allies is of far more direct importance to them than to Washington.
“There is one difference between France and the U.S.—we share the same geography, we are part and parcel of the same continent, we have economic and sociological continuity with our neighbors writ large,” Chatel said. @Xavier_Chatel_
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrofFrance’s “forward nuclear deterrence” gains shape as ten European nations join the club, aiming to deter Russia. My deep dive into what it means and how it will work at a time when Europe is increasingly uncertain that the American nuclear umbrella still exists.
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