French President Emmanuel Macron's proposal to discuss extending his country's nuclear deterrent to European partners is a "threat", says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Macron announced the possible extension of France's nuclear deterrent to European partners on Wednesday, as Europe scrambles to respond to Donald Trump's upending of the transatlantic alliance.
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00:00Of course, this is a threat to Russia.
00:02If we consider it a threat, to gather the meeting of the heads of the General Staffs
00:09of European countries and Britain, to say that it is necessary to use nuclear weapons,
00:17to prepare for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia, is, of course, a threat.
00:23Unlike his predecessors, who also wanted to fight Russia, Napoleon, Hitler,
00:32Mr. Macron does not act very gracefully, because they rightly said that it is necessary to conquer Russia,
00:41it is necessary to defeat Russia.
00:44Apparently, he wants the same, but for some reason he says that it is necessary to fight Russia,
00:50that it did not defeat France, that Russia poses a threat to France and Europe.