Trump commented on Macron's words about nuclear weapons

US President Donald Trump said that he would like the opposite of what French leader Emmanuel Macron proposes in the context of the use of nuclear weapons, that is, denuclearization.

"It would be great if we didn't have to talk about it," Trump said at the White House when asked to comment on Macron's words.

He stressed that he would like the "opposite" of what the French leader proposed, that is, negotiations on denuclearization.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on March 5 that Russia had allegedly become a threat to France and Europe, and therefore called for a discussion on the use of France's nuclear weapons to protect the entire EU, noting that the United States had changed its position on Ukraine and on Washington's leading role in NATO. On Thursday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Europe should enter into an arms race with the Russian Federation.

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Macron's statement about Russia extremely confrontational. According to him, there are many inaccuracies in it, in particular, it does not say anything about how NATO's military infrastructure was "striding by leaps and bounds" to the border of the Russian Federation, and about Moscow's legitimate concerns in this regard. Later, he also said that one can only express regret that confrontational militaristic statements are being made from Warsaw and Paris.