French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to begin talks with Latvia on the country’s accession to the French Forward Nuclear Deterrence Initiative. A French delegation will arrive in Latvia soon for consultations, and the country’s Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry are to prepare a position, a cooperation model, and a schedule for further talks.

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Finland will join the French nuclear deterrence initiative and begin cooperation with France on consultations on nuclear doctrine, exercises, and the presence of French strategic aviation in the country. Finnish President Alexander Stubb said this does not mean the permanent deployment of French nuclear weapons in Finland and that there will be none there in peacetime.

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There are only two nuclear powers in Europe: France and the United Kingdom. Their combined strength is less than the arsenals of Russia and the USA, but fully sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage on an adversary. While Russian aggression in Ukraine continues and US commitments within NATO do not appear reliable, the stance of leading European countries on nuclear deterrence takes on particular significance.

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