It’s pretty clear from Macron’s speech that we’re heading into a massive nuclear escalation over the next few years, he has as much as said so.

Since the Cold War, nuclear non-proliferation has been based entirely on the idea that NATO would balance Russia and vice versa.

Given that NATO as it has been understood is now effectively dead, the non-proliferation treaty is essentially dead too.

Europe needs to rapidly increase it’s nuclear weapons stockpile (and realises this), but this also gives other countries around the world an incentive/excuse to do the same.

Canada has no nuclear umbrella of its own, is not part of a mutual defence alliance beyond NATO, and they are being actively threatened with annexation by a Russia-controlled US. They’ll clearly need to build or agree by pact their own nuclear defence as a matter of national emergency. It’s hard to see how anyone will place much trust in such pacts ever again though.

It’s a scarier world we’re entering, and is significantly more dangerous than even the Cuban missile crisis.