“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Mar 06, 2025
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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS of TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
I am posting this article today for only one reason – that being the absolute childish one-word affront by supposedly grown men discussing a serious world class issue — nuclear weapons of mass destruction — insulting the French leader as “Micron” rather than his honorable name “Macron”. (In this case it was former Russian President Medvedev. )
Childish behavior like this defies the belief that serious-minded highly placed responsible individuals are taking the concept of nuclear annihilation seriously.
Other than that mild tirade, the story reports that U.S. President Donald Trump’s upending of U.S. policy on the war have caused fears among European leaders that Washington is turning its back on Europe, which is an extremely serious International situation . . .
Also, I will add, as I often do, that the “number” of nuclear weapons’ in a country’s arsenal is irrelevant these days because of the size and power, and distribution methods of nuclear bombs today versus those of the World War II or “Cold War” eras that are far more individually important and potentially far more destructive than the number of collective weapons, most of which would likely never be launched. Today’s nuclear bombs are up to 80 times more powerful than those that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
So, you see, nuclear war is not a grade-school playground name-calling threat or scuffle. Any “dignitary” anywhere who stoops to such a low level should be summarily dismissed and fired from whatever position or rank that they have been elected to or placed in. ~llaw
Mocking him as ‘Micron’, Russia warns Macron not to threaten it
By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov
March 6, 20257:29 AM PST Updated 5 hours ago
President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron, attend a joint press conference, in Moscow, Russia, February 7, 2022. Thibault Camus/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
- Summary
- Moscow opposes European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine
- Macron open to discussing sharing nuclear deterrence
- Russia says Macron should not threaten Russia
- Kremlin agrees “proxy war” should end
- Ex-President Medvedev calls Macron ‘Micron’
MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) – Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him ‘Micron’, ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces from NATO members to Ukraine.
Macron said in an address to the nation on Wednesday that Russia was a threat to Europe, Paris could discuss extending its nuclear umbrella to allies and that he would hold a meeting of army chiefs from European countries willing to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine after a peace deal.
The Kremlin said the speech was extremely confrontational and that Macron wanted the war in Ukraine to continue.
“This (speech) is, of course, a threat against Russia,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“Unlike their predecessors, who also wanted to fight against Russia, Napoleon, Hitler, Mr Macron does not act very gracefully, because at least they said it bluntly: ‘We must conquer Russia, we must defeat Russia’.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest confrontation between the West and Russia since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Kremlin and White House have said missteps could trigger World War Three.
Russia and the United States are the world’s biggest nuclear powers, with over 5,000 nuclear warheads each. China has about 500, France has 290 and Britain 225, according to the Federation of American Scientists., opens new tab
Russian officials and lawmakers accused Macron of rhetoric that could push the world closer to the abyss. Russian cartoons cast him as Napoleon Bonaparte riding towards defeat in Russia in 1812.
“Micron himself poses no big threat though. He’ll disappear forever no later than May 14, 2027. And he won’t be missed,” former President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on X, looking ahead to the end of Macron’s term.
00:14EU leaders talk defense spending surge after U.S. cuts Ukraine aid
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested Macron might want help measuring his true military size, and her ministry said his speech contained “notes of nuclear blackmail” and amounted to a threat directed towards Russia.
“Paris’ ambitions to become the nuclear ‘patron’ of all of Europe have burst out into the open, by providing it with its own ‘nuclear umbrella’, almost to replace the American one. Needless to say, this will not lead to strengthening the security of either France itself or its allies,” it said.
NO ON PEACEKEEPERS
Russian advances in Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump’s upending of U.S. policy on the war have caused fears among European leaders that Washington is turning its back on Europe.
Russian officials say tough rhetoric from Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other European powers is not backed up by hard military power and point to Russia’s advances on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Lavrov and the Kremlin dismissed Macron’s proposal to send peacekeepers to Ukraine and said Russia would not agree to it.
“We are talking about such a confrontational deployment of an ephemeral contingent,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Lavrov said saying Moscow would see such a deployment as NATO presence in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Western assertions that Russia could one day attack a NATO member.
He portrays the war as part of a historic struggle with the West following the collapse of the Soviet Union and NATO’s encroachment on what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week cast the conflict as a proxy war between Russia and the U.S., a position the Kremlin said was accurate.
“This is actually a conflict between Russia and the collective West. And the main country of the collective West is the United States of America,” Peskov said. “We agree that it is time to stop this conflict and this war.”
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Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, Dmitry Antonov, Mark Trevelyan, Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Stephen Coates, Michael Perry, Philippa Fletcher and Timothy Heritage
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As Moscow bureau chief, Guy runs coverage of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Before Moscow, Guy ran Brexit coverage as London bureau chief (2012-2022). On the night of Brexit, his team delivered one of Reuters historic wins – reporting news of Brexit first to the world and the financial markets. Guy graduated from the London School of Economics and started his career as an intern at Bloomberg. He has spent over 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks fluent Russian.Subscribed
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