Bardella: European countries should buy French warplanes to join nuclear club

PARIS — European countries should buy French warplanes instead of U.S. ones to benefit from France’s new nuclear deterrent initiative, far-right leader Jordan Bardella said on Thursday evening. “Before asking France to extend its nuclear umbrella, our European partners must stop buying [American-made] F-35s and start buying Rafales instead,” he told French broadcaster LCI. Despite making that demand, he did underline that France should stick with the nuclear doctrine developed by former Presiden