Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down13
arrow-up1341arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareMirshe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoTheir current nuclear policy if they believe someone is going to credibly deploy nuclear weapons against the French is to fire a nuclear-tipped air-to-ground missile at the power in question, as a warning shot.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoSo they’re openly saying what every nuclear power would do, got it. Don’t you think every nuclear power will launch nukes at military targets the second they become aware someone intends to do the same?
Their current nuclear policy if they believe someone is going to credibly deploy nuclear weapons against the French is to fire a nuclear-tipped air-to-ground missile at the power in question, as a warning shot.
So they’re openly saying what every nuclear power would do, got it.
Don’t you think every nuclear power will launch nukes at military targets the second they become aware someone intends to do the same?