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Alex Christoforou<\/a> – February 14, 2020<\/p>\n The Duran\u2019s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Emmanuel Macron\u2019s speech where the French President unveiled his nuclear doctrine advocating for a more coordinated European Union defence strategy in which France, the EU\u2019s only post-Brexit nuclear power, and its arsenal holding a central role.<\/p>\n Macron warned all those in attendance that the European Union \u2018cannot remain spectators\u2019 in the nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n In a much anticipated speech to military officers graduating in Paris, Macron<\/a>\u00a0called on\u00a0EU<\/a>\u00a0member states to play a more direct role in halting a new\u00a0nuclear arms<\/a>\u00a0race, saying they \u201ccannot remain spectators\u201d against a threat to the continent\u2019s collective security.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the absence of a legal framework, they could rapidly face a new race for conventional weapons, even nuclear weapons, on their own soil,\u201d said Macron.<\/p>\n Setting out his country\u2019s nuclear strategy in a bid to show leadership a week after nuclear-armed Britain officially exited the EU, Macron highlighted how\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0sees its nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks from belligerent foes.<\/p>\n Macron\u2019s speech comes at a time when long-standing accords on limiting the growth of nuclear arsenals appear increasingly at risk.<\/p>\n https:\/\/theduran.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex Christoforou – February 14, 2020 The Duran\u2019s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Emmanuel Macron\u2019s speech where the French President unveiled his nuclear doctrine advocating for a more coordinated European Union defence strategy in which France, the EU\u2019s only post-Brexit nuclear power, and its arsenal holding a central role. Macron warned all those … Continue reading With UK out, Macron unveils \u2018nuclear weapons doctrine\u2019 with France leading an EU army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[14736,14737,161,197,28,158,11138,14726,578],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching","tag-alex-christoforou","tag-alexander-mercouris","tag-brexit","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-macron","tag-nuclear-arms-race","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18249,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}