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France has completely sovereign nukes and the only first-strike nuclear doctrine in the world. It has the military power to resist any country.

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France's nuclear policy isn't unique in that they are willing to launch a first-strike (all the serious nuclear powers claim to be). France's nuclear policy is unique in that they are willing to use nuclear fire as a warning shot: before they launch their full strategic stockpile, they'll (probably) erase a military base or aircraft carrier with a tactical nuke. That lower threshold to break the nuclear taboo is what's interesting.

It's not the only country with that doctrine. See [1]. I think only China and India is no first use.

[1]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-declaratory-p...

Yup. No other country had an official Force de Frappe.

France is never going to send a nuke to the US.

It happened in the Simpsons.

They already nuked America economically twice in the 20th century.

The first time the French involvement in gold markets caused the Great Depression and the second time the repatriation of gold caused a financial system crisis which severely damaged the dollar and forced the US to decouple the dollar from gold entirely.

Nuke means no return and MAD. Not a word you use lightly.

Your attitude reminds me of this old meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-you-gonna-do-stab-me

So explain yourself instead of using memes.

I thought it was obvious, but let me explicitly spell it out for you:

You speak with an unfounded arrogance that will earn you a bloodied nose if you don't course correct.

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