I believe a nuclear "umbrella" is useless. I do not see any scenario where, for example, the French would use nuclear weapons to defend Ottawa knowing that the retaliation would result in Paris being melted.
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I don't believe in nuclear umbrellas either which is why we need nuclear capable subs
aug 26, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The French subs are nuclear powered, not nuclear armed. I don't think France has a nuclear cruise missile that can be fired from their submarines. I think it's only the tomahawks that can do that.
aug 26, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
M51 strategic sea-ground nuclear missiles www.defense.gouv.fr/marine/marin...
aug 26, 2025, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
That's triumphant class. Not in production. Neither is the SLBM. The one that visited Halifax was sufferen class. Much smaller.
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile... They have been developing version 3 since 2014
aug 26, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I am pretty sure they do have nuclear capable subs
aug 26, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, four of them. Different class of submarine. They are currently working on a replacement but it will be many years, and I doubt they would sell them.
aug 26, 2025, 8:34 pm • 4 0 • view
First, the nuclear signatories agreed not to transfer either nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons technology to any other state. Second, the non-nuclear states agreed that they would not receive, develop or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons 👆👆 no transfer of nukes
aug 26, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t matter if they sell them - we are signatory to the non-proliferation agreement
aug 26, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
They definitely do!
aug 26, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe Canada needs a poison pill that would make an American invasion catastrophic for the invaders.
aug 26, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree. The potential to nuke a reactor or 2, covering the American east coast in fallout and making it uninhabitable is just that poison pill. That makes Canada is more expensive to steal than we are worth.
aug 26, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
That would do it.
aug 26, 2025, 8:20 pm • 2 0 • view
All Canada needs to do is get someone (or several someones) assassinate Donald Trump and Steven Miller and a few other bloviating lunatics.
aug 26, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
There are currently too many of them. I honestly don't care what happens to them. I want to be able to ignore them and go about our business without their interference.
aug 26, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh there are a lot of lunatics in the US. I know. I live in Chicago! But there are only a few "Americans" crazy enough to *think about* and have the *power to order* an invasion of Canada or Greenland. Or Denmark. Those ppl having an 'unfortunete" incident with some polonium tea = easy way.
aug 26, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Just slap a label on it that says "ivermectin tonic" and it won't even be necessary to send someone to spike a drink.
aug 26, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I was in Chicago as a kid to see the King Tut exhibit but don't know much about the city. 🙂😇
aug 26, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I won't suggest that but do wonder where all those who swore the military service oath to protect the Constitution disappeared, including secret service security details and the FBI. All impostors? Maybe they are all cosplaying. Even the generals who served under Trump or Biden vanished. Poof!
aug 26, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
All of the top lawyers in the military were fired a while back. The ones who could defend someone charged with refusing unconstitutional orders.
aug 26, 2025, 8:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Canada (and the US) need more robust treason laws. I remember in the 80s when the Pentagon was turned upside down to look for a Russian spy... LOL now they are in the White House
aug 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Especially in the US case, the law doesn't matter unless someone is willing to enforce it.
aug 26, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And generals.
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Let me say this: The US is not going to invade Canada. Threats from manbabies are one thing--but in invasion. No. Obviously it's infuriating though. Make small steps 'just in case' but don't change the nation you are cuz of one insane manbaby who will drop dead soon.
aug 26, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And Maga fascism doesn’t end with him.
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
It is. That is a definite. The US has limited options to retain its #1 status in an increasingly multi polar world - expansionist ambition is top of the list.
aug 26, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree with this view. Frankly the entire idea of a 'nuclear umbrella' is pretty ridiculous and it always has been. During the Cold War, did anyone really think the US would nuke 'Leningrad' in response to the USSR nuking Hamburg? It's silly.
aug 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Ukraine was given assurances in 1991, they gave up their nuclear weapons, then no one protected them as Russia invaded. Assurances are vapourware. F vapourware.
aug 26, 2025, 8:21 pm • 6 1 • view
I understand this view and sympathize with it, but Ukraine in the 1990s could not financially afford to keep an operable nuclear arsenal. Ukraine did the right thing then and hoped for the best. The "west" however was horribly remiss in not arming Ukraine to the teeth after Russia's 2014 invasion.
aug 26, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view