Tom Nichols

To get across to your listeners just how astonishing this is, I'm going to go into, like, nuclear professor mode for a minute and say, you know, Remember that the French created their own nuclear force because they felt cut out of the U.S.-British kind of nuclear duomvirate, right, back in the 50s.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

This has now turned everything on its head where the French, they haven't made a policy decision yet, but for France to say, okay, basically we'll take over as the nuclear guarantor of NATO. What? Wow. And considering that the French, you know, nuclear force is relatively small, that doesn't mean, you know, nuclear war fighting or tit for tat. I mean, that basically means that the, you know,

This has now turned everything on its head where the French, they haven't made a policy decision yet, but for France to say, okay, basically we'll take over as the nuclear guarantor of NATO. What? Wow. And considering that the French, you know, nuclear force is relatively small, that doesn't mean, you know, nuclear war fighting or tit for tat. I mean, that basically means that the, you know,

This has now turned everything on its head where the French, they haven't made a policy decision yet, but for France to say, okay, basically we'll take over as the nuclear guarantor of NATO. What? Wow. And considering that the French, you know, nuclear force is relatively small, that doesn't mean, you know, nuclear war fighting or tit for tat. I mean, that basically means that the, you know,

if war comes and I shouldn't say if war comes, if Russia starts another war, that this is going to be the French, you know, responding to nuclear force with nuclear force. And it's going to be, You know, it's going to be World War Three. And the idea that somehow this will exclude us, that Americans will just say, OK, we're out of it. You know, that's that's not going to happen.

if war comes and I shouldn't say if war comes, if Russia starts another war, that this is going to be the French, you know, responding to nuclear force with nuclear force. And it's going to be, You know, it's going to be World War Three. And the idea that somehow this will exclude us, that Americans will just say, OK, we're out of it. You know, that's that's not going to happen.

if war comes and I shouldn't say if war comes, if Russia starts another war, that this is going to be the French, you know, responding to nuclear force with nuclear force. And it's going to be, You know, it's going to be World War Three. And the idea that somehow this will exclude us, that Americans will just say, OK, we're out of it. You know, that's that's not going to happen.

That's not how it goes in the international.

That's not how it goes in the international.

That's not how it goes in the international.

And because they don't want to get primaried. And because, you know, I keep thinking about Tom Tillis saying, well, you know, I got I wasn't going to vote for Agseth and I got threats, you know, like they're off the record. You know, you're hearing or unattributed. You're hearing Republicans saying things like, well, you know, I fear for my family and my staff.

And because they don't want to get primaried. And because, you know, I keep thinking about Tom Tillis saying, well, you know, I got I wasn't going to vote for Agseth and I got threats, you know, like they're off the record. You know, you're hearing or unattributed. You're hearing Republicans saying things like, well, you know, I fear for my family and my staff.

And because they don't want to get primaried. And because, you know, I keep thinking about Tom Tillis saying, well, you know, I got I wasn't going to vote for Agseth and I got threats, you know, like they're off the record. You know, you're hearing or unattributed. You're hearing Republicans saying things like, well, you know, I fear for my family and my staff.

And well, you know, I'm sorry, but if you're a senior U.S. senator and you're you're not going to vote your conscience down. Because you're afraid of Donald Trump and people in your district that go home. Don't be a senator anymore. You know, I'm sorry. You know, if it's that's and I understand.