Finland joins the French nuclear deterrent

And ten: Russia's neighbor, Finland announced on Monday its intention to join France's famous “advanced” nuclear deterrent. As a reminder, Emmanuel Macron updated the national doctrine in this area last March, against a backdrop of the Russian threat, war in the Middle East and American disengagement from NATO. His idea consists of projecting French deterrence towards European allies; this includes joint exercises and, potentially, temporary deployments of elements outside France. But with total control of the weapon from Paris.

Helsinki therefore joins the nine other capitals which have placed themselves under this tricolor nuclear “umbrella”, including Berlin, Oslo and Warsaw. While perhaps waiting for Tallinn, which showed its interest at the start of the week.