France's warning to Germany against provocations in Russia for a nuclear war.
France has warned Germany that the country's development of long-range missiles, in the absence of a clear military doctrine on how to use them, could inadvertently force Russia into a nuclear response and drag Paris into a wider crisis.
According to the "Financial Times" newspaper, officials in France fear that Germany will inadvertently cross the threshold of nuclear conflict without precisely determining the limits and objectives of the use of its new missiles; Especially if Moscow misunderstands the nature and message of German conventional attacks.
Germany prepares and develops ground missiles with different ranges. The range of some of these missiles will be about 500 km and the range of others will be more than two thousand km. France's concern is clearly related to the way these weapons are used in operations called "precise attacks deep in enemy territory."