Macron flaunts French nukes: How Europe learned to love 'la bombe'

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“To arms, citizens,” sang Emmanuel Macron as he led the acapella rendition of La Marseillaise before France’s dry-docked latest nuclear submarine. Vladimir Putin is threatening European capitals with his doomsday weapons and stationed tactical nukes in the European enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. Mr Macon had just torn up 65 years of doctrine to offer French nukes to protect Europe from Russia; if necessary without the United States. “To be free, we must be feared, and to be feared, we must