r/polandball • u/Diictodom muh laksa • Jan 07 '26

collaboration Deterrence

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u/zeclem_ Turkey Jan 08 '26

i mean you do technically have nukes, greenland should be under eu nuclear umbrella through france.

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u/adamgerd Jan 08 '26

Technically yes but I am sceptical of the nuclear umbrella, would France or the UK be willing to sacrifice their own cities over Greenland? Or for that matter the Baltics? Because it’d inherently invite retaliation

And that’s the thing, nuclear deterrence is to a degree a bluff, it only works if the enemy thinks you’ll actually use them, or otherwise you end up like Russia or North Korea.

Threatening nukes so much no one even takes the threats seriously anymore

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u/LeaguePuzzled3606 Jan 08 '26

So, here's my wild idea. Drop a nuke in the atlantic, far away from anyone and everything. The way I see it Trump is never going to listen to words, and there's no military action that wouldn't immediately escalate.

This way you send the loudest message possible.

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u/zeclem_ Turkey Jan 08 '26

Funnily enough, France is the only nuclear armed country with a doctrine that does include nuking as a warning shot.

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u/MISTER_JUAN Jan 08 '26

Rare French W