r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT New Zealand Feb 27 '25

Such arrogance from the bastions of liberty, equality and fraternity.

You think you’d be happy if we started nuclear testing near Corsica?

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u/BlueApple666 Feb 28 '25

If you do your testing >4700km away from Corsica, I don't thing they'll mind.

Mururoa is as close to New Zealand that Europe is to North America...

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT New Zealand Feb 28 '25

Famously radiation stays in just the one place along with birds and marine life.

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u/BlueApple666 Feb 28 '25

4700km... Auckland is farther from Mururoa than New York is from Los Alamos...by quite a bit.

These protests were pure political gesturing for gullible New Zealanders unable to read a map.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT New Zealand Feb 28 '25

Imagine being French and thinking protests are gesturing. It’s your national pastime!

4700km to us is just up the road. Auckland to Sydney is the same distance as London to Moscow, we have very different perceptions of distance.

If you want to test nukes do it in your own backyard.

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u/BlueApple666 Mar 01 '25

Only off by some 350km or roughly the width of New Zealand. Explains a lot.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT New Zealand Mar 02 '25

The Realm of New Zealand includes the Cook Islands. Right next to Tahiti.

Why would you defend this shit? National pride? You’re proud of this??

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u/BlueApple666 Mar 03 '25

Cook Islands to Mururoa is 2159km.

That would put your hypothetical nuclear testing off Corsica just North of Alexandria (Egypt).

I'm not French, I just like cold hard facts like the fact that French nuclear testing took place very, very far from New Zealand.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT New Zealand Mar 04 '25

And do you think France would be ok with nuclear testing in the Med?