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Lars Rosenquist Mar 4

The US super power suicide continues:

Today, the government of Denmark announced that Denmark along with 7 other EU nations is joining the French nuclear deterrence, which means Danish troops will take part in European nuclear exercises, and potentially, Danish F-35 fighter jets may be made capable of delivering French nuclear weapons.

The eight European nations joining the French nuclear deterrence are Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark.

Rasmus Lindegaard Mar 2

@randahl i hate nuclear weapons but at least our politicians is withdrawing from the American madhouse

@[email protected] has moved.Mar 2

@rasmus91 I hate them too, but in this mad world, I find myself asking, can Canada join too?@randahl

@randahl Meanwhile #Czechia prime-minister #Babiš does anything not to spend money on defending the country. I'm glad we are #NATO and #EU and I do feel sorry for our representatives for doing such a shitty job

Rozpočet na obranu se zvyšovat nebude, řekl Andrej Babiš

Rozpočet na obranu se zvyšovat nebude, řekl Andrej Babiš

V úvodu pravidelné online debaty Deníku.cz 15 minut Kateřiny Perknerové moderátorka poblahopřála premiérovi k vynikajícímu projevu ministra zahraničních věcí Petra Macinky na půdě OSN. Věděl, co tam řekne?

Deník.cz

Enea Lecas Mar 2

@randahl I would guess Gulf Arab countries must be not particularly happy at the US right now, as the war in Iran is very bad business for them. The were probably not consulted, and previously gave him lots of money, bought his crypto token, gave him a private jet, etc.

WorldTravelerAll7 Mar 2

as an American, good for Europe 🥳💙

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Mar 2

@WorldTravelerAll7 @randahl

co-signed

celeste_hearts_disability_pride

@randahl

Good idea but i'd de-DRM the US stuff first.
Would be nice if the UK joined Spain in giving the USAF the boot instead of kissing arse.

Harald Hannelius

@randahl one nation with a white and blue flag notably missing from the list. Russia will take this as a sign of weakness, maybe as an invitation even.

Ryan J. Yoder Mar 2

@randahl
My first worry is this may make a nuclear arms race more likely. A bipolar system should be fairly stable (Ie US-Russia), but with Chinese modernizing their nuclear arsenal, we're quickly moving to a multi-polar nuclear world.

@ryanjyoder @randahl We're in that race already.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/03/02/france-to-increase-nuclear-warheads_6751015_7.html

Macron says France to increase nuclear warheads

French President Macron spoke after the launch of US and Israeli attacks against Iran in a campaign that risks destabilizing the Middle East. 'An upgrade of our arsenal is essential,' he said.

Le Monde

Ryan J. Yoder Mar 2

@fanchig @randahl
Luckily, I don't think we're there quite yet. But yeah we're on a verge of an arms race.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Mar 2

@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

no we're very much in it

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/67089

Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says

A source within Japan's prime minister's office said Thursday that the country needs nuclear weapons, remarks that deviate from the country's long-standing non-nuclear principles and could trigger backlash at home and abroad.

Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS

Ryan J. Yoder Mar 2

@benroyce @fanchig @randahl
I mean nuclear containment has been a thing since they existed. But currently there is only one power that has an arsenal to rival the US's and this system has been more or less stable since the cold war. Japan will not have one any time soon, if at all.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Mar 2

@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

i mean you keep denying we are entering an arms race. i certainly am not saying japan has one already. but the genie is out of the bottle now and there's nothing on the horizon that would put it back in

Ryan J. Yoder Mar 2

@benroyce @fanchig @randahl
Maybe this is just semantics. Are we in an arms race or on the verge of an arms race? Countries just talking about nukes doesn't qualify for me. China testing a nuke is more worrying to me.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Mar 2

@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

that's fair

i would respond that things are sliding in such a way that there is no sliding back

there is nothing going on in the world that suggests countries will back down from their new posture, and in fact plenty of accelerating behaviors that points to this new arms race as a near certainty

Andreas Bulling Mar 2

@randahl The only aspect in this post that disturbs me is the "F-35".

Not good.

⠠⠵ avuko Mar 2

@abulling @randahl

“[…] the French president said on Monday that Paris could deploy nuclear-capable Rafale fighter jets to partner countries such as Germany and Poland.”

We might be stuck with those F35s, doesn’t mean EU can’t diversify…

punIssuer Mar 2

@abulling @randahl You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

: No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore

The Register

Robin Barton Mar 2

@randahl Canada should join this as part of our break with usa

Raymond W Gallacher Mar 2

@randahl
Good stuff.

Si vis pacem, para bellum…

The only way forward in these unfortunate times.

Renke Meuwese Mar 2

@randahl now let's get rid of the US bases (and nukes) in Europe already. There's seriously no use of them being here anymore, and plenty of risk.

I hope that won't remain true for long, but it's just a hope. And the US will have to work for a very long time if trust is to ever be restored.

Iguess they need to cover all the bases, esp with a madman in charge in the US

llanciawn Mar 2

@randahl The UK should join and eschew the USA.

It might dampen the UK's slide towards the right wing and fascism, too. I feel like the US is dragging other nations that have close ties with us in that direction as we continue to fall towards it ourselves.

@randahl F-35s are all cloud-based (in the tech sense, not the weather sense.) They don't do anything the Pentagon doesn't let them do.

The EU has been arm-twisted into buying those, but the French still have some Napoleon in them and are probably making sure they can deliver the nukes without someone in DC clicking [Allow]

Saw a link higher in the thread to an article about jailbreaking F-35s like you jailbreak a phone.

AnatomicalNormalcy🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇰Mar 3

@randahl About time. This is great news for European independence.

K_L_Cooper Mar 3

@randahl
👌🏻

The Animal and the Machine Mar 3

@randahl
I don’t agree. The US will remain a superpower. It will just be a normal one, not one with Europe behind it. Europe will be its own superpower, and long over due.

The US is killing WWII legacy advantage. The world will be better for it. The American economy won’t understand it.