March 2 (UPI) -- French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France plans to work more closely with eight European countries to improve security on the continent, which will include France increasing its nuclear arsenal.
The move comes more than a year into the Trump administration's shift in foreign relations to work less with organizations like NATO and the United Nations, which most recently has seen President Donald Trump threaten to take Greenland by force.
Macron's speech also came two days into the war in Iran, launched early Saturday morning by the United States and Israel, that has now seen the Middle Eastern nation launch missiles not only at Israel and U.S. bases, but other countries in the Middle East and southern Europe.
Noting that "this is not an arms race," Macron pointed to the Iran war and the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, which has resulted in Russian leaders threatening to attack Europe, as reasons for the moves, The Guardian reported.
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