French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that France will increase its nuclear arsenal and, for the first time, allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries, in a new strategy aimed at strengthening Europe’s independence.
The fact that the EU needs to defend itself adequately is not mutually exclusive with how all this nuclear proliferation lowers the birth rate.
If somebody’s not having kids because “nukes” then I suppose I’m happy they’re not reproducing.
I imagine for most, it’s the economy and enshitification of life in general.
Yeah I think this is much more of the case because nukes can be more of a distant thought since it hasn’t happened yet and people haven’t directly experienced it. Money and the high cost to do anything now I would say is a much bigger driver as people are experiencing that everyday and can’t afford to have a kid
France has like 300 warheads vs russian 4.5K, plus russians started proliferating first. I say let them do it, sow the wind and all that. Birthrate is gonna be shit anyway while we have billionaires
edit: if i were polish this nuclear proliferation would calm me down actually
What are you, 7?
they recently placed their nukes in belarus, wdym?