{"id":637876,"date":"2026-07-19T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=637876"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:35:00","slug":"germany-to-join-french-nuclear-exercise-deepening-counter-russia-deterrence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=637876","title":{"rendered":"Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening ‘Counter-Russia’ Deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening ‘Counter-Russia’ Deterrence<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the latest development related to what some analysts have called the ‘new Cold War’ and nuclear saber-rattling between Russia and the West, Germany and France are planning a major nuclear exercise later this year.<\/p>\n

The atomic drills were announced Friday, after a\u00a0joint top-level meeting of the French and German governments near Cologne. “Alongside this work on a shared doctrine, German conventional forces will this year take part in a nuclear exercise of the French military<\/strong>,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz unveiled<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He detailed while at a press event alongside French President Emmanuel Macron that a “strategic steering group” established by the leading European allies would continue looking at deterrence in the future, with an eye on Russia.<\/p>\n

“This is complementary to our nuclear participation and deterrence within NATO, which we still hold to,” he added. He also previewed\u00a0“a maneuver in the autumn held on the initiative of France” – while speaking of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

“We will clarify together what form exactly this participation will take,” he said.<\/p>\n

France is newly positioning itself at the forefront of nuclear deterrence for Europe, a role that the United States has long assumed, and currently still does.<\/p>\n

According to some of Macron’s statements at the same event: “Patriotism, yes; nationalism, never. At a time when Europe is rearming, to think that each of us separately accumulating capabilities is the way history is going is absurd.” More details have been offered in the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mr Macron and Mr Merz began the defence council at N\u00f6rvenich air base beside a\u00a0French Rafale<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0German Eurofighter<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a symbolic backdrop after the aircraft designed to replace them was scrapped.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nuclear deterrence offers one field where the strained partnership can still move forward<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

German troops would play a conventional supporting role and would not control French weapons. Berlin will also help develop radar and space-based systems for detecting ballistic and hypersonic missiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Currently the United States and the UK, which both maintain nuclear arsenals,\u00a0form the core of NATO’s nuclear deterrence strategy<\/strong>. While France also possesses\u00a0nuclear weapons, it does not yet participate on a leadership level in NATO’s nuclear planning group. The US military also contributes F-35, refueling aircraft, and other support planes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Germany’s Chancellor Merz:<\/p>\n

For the first time, I have accepted the offer made by the French President to jointly think about nuclear deterrence.<\/p>\n

Historically speaking, General Charles de Gaulle had already offered the Federal Republic of Germany a French nuclear umbrella many\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/lIug2JjqVB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Clash Report (@clashreport) July 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Russia has not infrequently held its own strategic drills over the course of the last several years of war in Ukraine. It has also become the ‘new normal’<\/a> for Russia and Europe to hold rival conventional war games, amid threats, warnings and ongoing miliary flexing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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