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France's nuclear weapon's policy is incredibly unhinged. Their plan for not letting West Germany fall to the Soviets was to completely glass West Germany with nukes.
Posadism with Morgenthau characteristics
France is probably the only country more eager to use nukes than the United States. I believe they're the only current UN-official nuclear power with an explicit first-strike doctrine. I also recall an anecdote shared somewhere about a French general or official's disbelief at the extent of the US's nuclear stockpile and nuclear retaliation/escalation planning, with the reason given being "it doesn't take that many to remove Moscow from the map".
during the cold war their doctrine was also to saturate west germany with a heap of nukes to prevent a breakthrough in the Fulda Gap. (LMAO)
European nations will be put under France's 'nuclear umbrella' or Russia's. this is not a statement of France's rectitude, they're simply the european nation with a nuclear triad that is not the US, and will have to be rallied around if the US plunges the world into nuclear realpolitik.
it would be funny to see Napoleon's dream over the heap of Europe finally achieved 200 years later tho low key