European nations wanting “insurance” against Russia are looking to France and Britain to share their nuclear deterrents.

European countries that spent decades sheltering under America’s nuclear umbrella are now openly discussing a new form of protective alliance against Russia built around French and possibly British atomic weapons.

It’s a direct response to Donald Trump eroding confidence in NATO’s Article 5 common defense pledge by trashing allies, questioning U.S. commitments and turbocharging doubts with threats to seize Greenland.

Leaders in Sweden, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands — some of Europe’s most pro-American countries — have publicly confirmed in recent days that they’re holding conversations about a European nuclear deterrent to complement the American version.

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        Nice try , There is no comparison between Ayatollah .and Charles de Gaulle.

        Ayatollah . will go down in history for very different
        events that have had a major impact on the Middle East today.

        Mass murder of his own people

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          Khomeini nailed that the US is the Great Satan. A fact that much of the world outside of the West is in agreement with.

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            No nation is “the great Satan”, that’s just religious swill. Some nations are good, some are bad, many are Grey. I’ll give you the US is bad, but no need to bring religion into your geopolitics. That’s always bad and often leads to genocides.

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                I think ,you need to read the sentence again, which part of the sentence you don’t understand ?
                “Own people” perhaps ?
                I’ve seen Iran in 1970 , I’ve seen it in 2024

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                  You saw the Savak in 1970? If you knew history you’d know the Shah, an ally of the US and israel, was a brutal dictator who killed and tortured thousands.

                  But the MSM isnt mentioning that, or the brutal sanctions in place by the US which has caused enormous suffering in Iran, because it doesn’t fit the neocon agenda of convenient humanitarianism