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power 2026-04-21
Macron Is Offering Poland a Nuclear Umbrella. France Still Controls the Button.
The Franco-Polish summit in Gdansk produced the clearest articulation yet of a European nuclear deterrence framework that does not depend on Washington. The Kremlin immediately called it militarization.
power 2026-04-20
France Is Offering Poland a Nuclear Umbrella the US Won't Confirm It Still Holds
At a Gdansk summit, Macron and Tusk agreed to joint nuclear exercises and information-sharing. Europe is building a deterrence architecture outside NATO for the first time since 1949.