Macron touts France's nuclear weapons to back support for Ukraine

European powers should not allow the United States to impose limits on their support for Ukraine, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, who invoked his country’s nuclear weapons arsenal as a basis for staring down Russia.

“We’re in a situation where we’re not quite sure about the European limits — why should others, other continents, tell us where our limits are?” Macron said during a wide-ranging speech at Sorbonne University, according to a France24 interpreter. “It’s a question of the security of Europe — are we prepared for that? No. We have to become credible and we have to be present and act as a force of deterrence. And this involves nuclear forces.”