Senator Claude Malhuret is known for his pen dipped in acid and his oratorical skills that transform the Senate chamber into a shooting gallery. This year, just like last year,[01] the Senator from Allier did not disappoint, painting the portrait of a topsy-turvy world where reality surpasses satire.
One can only applaud such a courageous and lucid stance. « Finally, » on January 19, the Senators spoke their minds, and the very next day, we heard the President of the Republic at Davos speak without mincing words—unanimously hailed from the left to the right of the political spectrum and by the entire British press this morning.[02] An unprecedented occurrence that underscores the gravity of the situation and the necessity of a united front in the face of Trump.
It is time to set the record straight and deal with a figure not based on what he perceives himself to be, but on what he has become in the eyes of the world.
At the Senate rostrum, Senator Malhuret, Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces, and President of the Les Indépendants group, does not put on kid gloves: he picks up a bazooka.
His conclusion is simple: the world of 2026 is an open-air asylum where the keys have been handed to the most unstable patient.
1. Trump: The Trigger-Happy Pacifist
Senator Malhuret points out the supreme irony of « Trumpism »: an isolationist doctrine that has never bombed so much.
- The Paradox: Trump styles himself as a « Nobel Peace Prize candidate » yet bombs everywhere from Venezuela to Yemen.
- The Invasion « To-Do List »: After hitting everyone else, he is now threatening Canada, Mexico, and… Greenland.
- The Killer Metaphor: Doctor Malhuret compares Trump to a « four-year-old child » who cries for a toy (the world) before ripping off its leg and throwing it into a trunk. Geopolitical analysis meets child psychiatry.
2. The « Appalachian Genius » and the Rottweiler
The Senator does not forget the running mate. J.D. Vance (the Vice-President) is dressed down for a (nuclear) winter:
- By branding him the « Genius of the Appalachians, » [01] he makes an acidic reference to his book Hillbilly Elegy.
- He then describes his « Rottweiler » manners and the « condescending air of an imbecile » who has come to preach bigoted morality lessons to Old Europe. Transatlantic relations are clearly at an all-time high…
3. Agent Krasnov in the White House?
Malhuret dares to draw the forbidden parallel. Between concessions to Putin and the abandonment of Ukraine, he resurrects the Kompromat theory, suggesting that Trump acts less like an American President and more like a Russian agent from the 90s. The only place he is militarily disengaging? Ukraine, of course.
4. Europe: « A Face of Sand »
If Trump is the movie villain, Europe is the willing victim—paralyzed and incapable.
- The Diagnosis: Europe is neither a country nor a power. It is dependent on everyone (Russian energy, US military, Chinese trade).
- The Paralysis: Despite the Draghi and Letta reports (the economic rescue plans), Europe is not moving. Senator Malhuret implicitly quotes Michel Foucault: Europe risks fading away like « a face of sand at the edge of the sea. »
- Guilty Inaction: We refused to seize Russian assets, we refused to protect Ukrainian skies, and we are just watching the train go by.
5. The Absurd Finale: The Battle of Greenland
This is the showstopper of 2026. Trump wants to annex Greenland (literally).
- For Senator Malhuret, this is the moment of truth. If Europe lets this happen, it is total submission (« vassalization »).
- His hope? That this madness is the final straw that triggers Trump’s impeachment in the USA, where resistance is beginning to organize against this « techno-fascism. » (Editor’s Note)
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Full text of the Senator’s intervention on January 19, 2026, at the Senate rostrum. (Following the government’s declaration and debate pursuant to Article 50-1 of the Constitution regarding France’s role in the prevention and resolution of international political crises, notably in Venezuela) — Source: Senate
- Mr. President,
- Ministers,
- My dear Colleagues,
This new world is being born before our very eyes, and we are struggling to understand it.
The planet’s leading power, guarantor of the current order, has become the one contesting it. It was our ally; today it is our adversary, before perhaps becoming our enemy tomorrow. It was a bulwark against dictatorships; it seems on the verge of becoming one.
Trumpism is an incoherence
If we struggle to understand, it is primarily because Trumpism is an incoherence—a simplistic doctrine with actions that constantly contradict it. Isolationism is claimed through tariffs or the hunting down of foreigners. Yet, never has a president committed so much interference.
In one year, he has carried out as many airstrikes as Biden did during his entire term: the Israel-Hamas war, the bombing of Iran, strikes in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Venezuela. He proclaims himself the president of peace and a candidate for the Nobel Prize, all while threatening new interventions: Canada, Greenland, Cambodia, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. The only country from which he is disengaging is Ukraine.
And the talks that drag on, the concessions to Putin, the dropping of the Europeans are such that they end up lending credibility to those who accuse him of being Krasnov, that Russian agent recruited in the 90s and the subject of a kompromat. [02]
The second absurdity is the total lack of perseverance in action. Trump boasts of having stopped eight wars in one year. This is not the case for any of them. At best, fragile ceasefires. At worst, fighting that continues. And nowhere has a peace treaty been signed.
The result is not what matters, but the right images for TV. A quick song and dance, and then he’s gone.
His foreign policy is that of a four-year-old child who cries to get the doll seen in the shop window, only to throw it into a trunk three days later after ripping off a leg.
Incomprehensible is the will to smash the international system established by the United States since 1945, which, in a paranoid delusion, Trumpists interpret as a global plot against their country.
- Incomprehensible, outside of a psychiatric hypothesis, is the obsessive condemnation of everything his predecessors did before him.
- Incomprehensible is the attack on secular allies to resume dialogue with dictators at war with the Western order, the contempt for international law in favor of what he calls his personal morality, the destruction of multilateralism, and the withdrawal from dozens of institutions that gave the USA global influence, only to retreat into their own backyard, from which they emerge only to drop a few bombs.
And finally, the worst part: strengthening the credit of China, the only credible rival today and the primary danger for democracies. Totalitarian China, the winner in the tariff affair, appears in the eyes of the world as a stabilizing power facing a military and technological monster that strikes according to its president’s moods before losing interest in the chaos he has just created.
That is where the United States stands in 2026. For Europe, this situation is tragic. Its main ally has become an adversary, NATO is on the brink of the abyss, there are threats to one of its territories, a trade war, and the abandonment of Ukraine that we are struggling to compensate for.
All this, aggravated by the moral lessons of the Genius of the Appalachians, a Vice-President with the manners of a Rottweiler, who came with the condescending air of an imbecile to save us from ourselves and summon us to adopt the morality of his conservative bigotry.
For Europe, the time has come to wake up
Everyone knows this state of affairs. It remains to be interpreted. Why is Trump ready to wipe his feet on Europe in Greenland? Why did Putin believe he could invade Ukraine without reaction? Why do the Chinese flood Europe with their products, always finding a compliant open door? Why is Europe, whose GDP is comparable to that of the United States or China and ten times that of Russia, treated as a negligible quantity?
Because Europe is neither a country, nor a power, nor even a confederation.
- Energy-dependent on Russia,
- Militarily dependent on the United States,
- Commercially dependent on China, Its historical misinterpretation of the last thirty years leads it to fade from world history like, at the edge of the sea, a face of sand.
Yet its achievements are remarkable. Peace between former enemies, free movement, the single market and single currency, protection of fundamental rights, the most generous social policy.
But it has failed to answer three major problems:
- Guaranteeing its own security,
- Producing an effective decision-making system, and
- Joining the great revolution of the 21st century: the technological, cognitive, and financial revolution.
Must we choose between vassalage to our allies or submission to our enemies?
If we fail to meet these challenges, the alternative will be simple: vassalization to our allies or submission to our enemies.
The solutions are perfectly identified. Rearmament, which implies reindustrialization and massive investments to become a European military power; a federal leap with, among other things, the extension of qualified majority voting to become a European political power; and finally, the implementation of the Draghi and Letta reports to become, or rather become again, a European economic and commercial power.
Everyone knows this, but nothing is happening. Since 2022, the President of the Republic has announced that France and Europe were entering a war economy. Four years later, industrialists tell us that the orders are not there.
War-ravaged Ukraine today manages to produce 60% of its military needs. We have made no quantitative or qualitative leap. In economics, everyone knows that the great European work, the single market, remains far from the 1993 objectives and that immense barriers remain in place.
As for the technological revolution, we are light-years away from setting up the financial instruments essential to catch up with the United States and China.
Faced with the approaching danger, we have started to react. Billions in aid to Ukraine have been voted on to offset the Trumpist betrayal. A coalition of the willing has been created to escape the blackmail of Putin’s accomplices within Europe itself. We have begun implementing the Draghi report.
But alas! We dared not seize frozen Russian assets. We refused Sky Shield, which could protect the Ukrainian women and children dying every day under the war criminal’s bombs. And finally, two years after its publication, only 10% of the Draghi report has been implemented.
The threats to Greenland are a moment of truth. The anti-coercion instrument has been proposed. It is adapted to the situation, as is the Arctic Endurance exercise. The risk is significant, but the opposite risk is even greater, and this is the opportunity—now or never—to take the initiative.
Trump is not eternal
Trump is not eternal. His approval ratings sink every day. Americans, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, are raising their heads against the violence of a man whom they condemn a little more each day, the dream of a Caesarism that increasingly resembles techno-fascism.
Trump does not have the political means to carry out his threats. If he makes the mistake of sending troops, it will be the signal for his impeachment, and Republican leaders in Congress have just said so. If he backs down, it will be the signal for all Americans that the march toward autocracy can be stopped.
For Europeans, letting Greenland be annexed would mean we have accepted submission. Opposing it would be the first step of our resistance, and then of our recovery. We know that many more will be needed.
[01] Washington has become Nero’s court… — 2025-0304) —
[02] Voir « ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy » in The Guardian (2021-0129)
See also:
- « L’apocalypse selon Donald » — (2021-0121)
- « The Apocalypse According to Donald » — (2021-0121)
Decryption: The Courage of Truth in the Twilight of a World
There are moments in history when lucidity becomes the highest form of bravery. By daring to call a spade a spade and a predator a predator, Senator Malhuret has shattered the mirror of European illusions. He reminds us of a brutal truth we had forgotten in the comfort of peace: freedom is never a given; it is a permanent conquest. It must be earned, and in the face of dictatorship or blackmail, it sometimes demands that we be ready to risk everything for it rather than accept the shame of submission.
This implacable conclusion finally aligns with that of the President, creating this unprecedented united front, hailed from London to Warsaw. For the question is no longer partisan, it is existential: how long will we accept being robbed, extorted, insulted, and treated like vassals by a man who has made contempt his doctrine?
Enough is enough
Even the American heartland is beginning to waver under the weight of this madness, where the specter of impeachment is growing even within Republican ranks. It may already be too late to stitch together an international order that lies in tatters, pulverized by the whims of a single man. But if it is too late to save the old world, there is still time to refuse to die with it. To revolt is no longer an option; it is a duty of survival.
