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Special Reports

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Jérôme Denariez

Ormuz, Red Sea: The Gulf War Enters European Budgets

15 September 2026
Iran will likely emerge from the conflict weakened. That does not mean the United States will emerge victorious. For several weeks now, this war has been acting less on territories or military capabilities than on flows, delays, costs, and expectations. For European companies building their 2027 budgets, Hormuz is no longer a distant geopolitical question.

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Claude Martin, Ambassadeur de France — Photo Éditions L'Aube
Special Reports

Sixty Years of Chosen Vassalage (1)

13 September 2026
Claude Martin was France’s ambassador to Germany from 1999 to 2007. But long before holding that post, he had already been a quiet witness to it — a young diplomat in Bonn in the 1960s, a member of the Quai d’Orsay’s “Centre d’analyse et de prévision” in the 1970s, a deputy secretary-general in the 1990s. In his memoirs, Quand je pense à l’Allemagne, la nuit (L’Aube, 2023), he recounts, scene after scene, six decades of the same German reflex toward Washington — a reflex that runs through every government, every political color, and that no chancellor, not even the most Gaullist-compatible, has ever truly broken. What Bush was opening at Mainz in 1989 without naming it, Claude had seen coming, patiently, for thirty years already.

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Jérôme Denariez

Hormuz: The Return of Reality

9 July 2026
In his striking first essay, Clausewitz at Hormuz: The Impossible Memorandum, Jérôme Denariez immersed us in the intricacies of an absurd diplomacy, demonstrating the impossibility of drafting a rational compromise when the logic of pure […]

Weapon Systems

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Weapon Systems

Sovereignty, Defense, and Pretenses on the Eve of the Vote

5 September 2026
The vote taking place in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6 looks, on the surface, like a routine midterm consultation — a settling of domestic political scores. It is nothing of the sort. What it really puts to the test is the continent’s capacity to survive as a strategic power, at a moment when every European chancellery claims to defend sovereignty while quietly organizing its dependence.

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Press Review

Who Loses Wins in the Far North?

1 September 2026
On Monday, August 31, aboard the frigate Amiral Ronarc’h moored in Stockholm, Emmanuel Macron and Ulf Kristersson sealed a ten-year-old Franco-Swedish defence partnership set to run for decades to come — four frigates, a strategic framework agreement, a nuclear steering group, French troops in the Swedish Arctic. In France, the event remained largely off the media radar. In Scandinavia, it made headlines, sparked debate, and, at times, controversy. A press review.

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Jérôme Denariez

A Defense Industrial Base, Several Clocks

1 September 2026
Debates about the war economy are often reduced to a question of volume: how many shells, drones, armored vehicles, billions? This reading is necessary, but insufficient. The war in Ukraine shows that a defense industrial base does not run on a single rhythm. It must simultaneously maintain platforms designed to last decades, mass-produce consumable equipment, modify systems within weeks, replace an unavailable supplier, finance ramp-ups in output, and keep producing even as its own industrial depth becomes a target.

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Intelligence

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Intelligence

The Epstein Affair: The Kremlin’s Hand in the “Honeytrap”

7 February 2026
For two decades, the Epstein affair was confined to the realm of sexual scandal. In early 2026, the massive declassification of 3 million pages from the US Department of Justice and European investigations reveal a much darker reality: Operation “Epstein” was merely the tip of the iceberg of a “state capture” and financial destabilization mechanism piloted from Moscow.

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Denmark: In Putin’s Crosshairs

15 December 2025
Denmark, the strategic sentinel of the Baltic straits and guardian of the Arctic, is no longer whispering: it is sounding the alarm. In their new joint assessment, the Defence Intelligence Service (FE) and the Security and Intelligence Service (PET) paint a chilling picture of a world where “might now makes right.” Far from being a simple geopolitical weather report, this document reveals a brutal mutation: Copenhagen has become a priority target. Russia, whose economy has shifted into total war mode, is no longer limiting itself to Ukraine but is actively preparing physical sabotage operations against critical European infrastructure.

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Intelligence

The Gray War: Dollars, Data, and Donations

31 August 2025
Russia is waging an insidious “grey war” in the United States, using money, data, and donations to influence American politics. This strategy relies on a complex network, the “Putinosphere,” which ranges from intelligence services to agents of influence and “useful idiots.”

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Intelligence

The “Serpent”

28 July 2025
Laurence Saint-Gilles’s paper delves into the “Gor affair,” a political firestorm ignited by a New York Post investigation into Sergio Gor, President Trump’s powerful personnel chief. Tasked with vetting thousands of officials, Gor has suspiciously avoided submitting his own mandatory security clearance form, the SF-86. This refusal, amplified by accusations from his rival Elon Musk, has fueled speculation that Gor may be a Russian mole—a “ghost in the Trump machine.” Saint-Gilles dissects the glaring inconsistencies in Gor’s biography, from his fabricated Maltese identity and mysterious parents to his original Russian surname. The analysis scrutinizes the “agent theory” and traces Gor’s calculated political ascent through the GOP’s ultraconservative wing. Ultimately, the paper highlights the profound national security risk posed by a potentially compromised individual with access to the sensitive data of America’s top government officials.

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Twilight Voices

Air Farce One - Donald arrive avec son nouveau conseiller Doni Darko à Washington — Photo AI © European-Security
Twilight Voices

The Blood Circus at Mar-a-Lago

12 April 2026
The Blood Circus at Mar-a-Lago “Stupidity cannot be cured, but it sure can be staged.” — Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière. As diplomatic codes collapse and the “Sacred Monsters” of Mar-a-Lago and the Tundra rise, […]
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Twilight Voices

The Tartuffe of the Tundra or The Dinner of Kings

31 March 2026
Picture the scene: the new White House ballroom—gold leaf applied with a trowel and casino-style diplomacy. Invisible at the bar, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) and Michel Audiard contemplate the spectacle. One adjusts his wig in the face of such imposture, while the other readies a volley of words for the ‘idiots who dare anything.’ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin and Michel Audiard, incognito, leaning against the bar of the brand-new ballroom inaugurated by Donald Trump at the White House! Before them, the spectacle of the court, the fans, and the sycophants. One wields the alexandrine to strike down hypocrisy, the other an ‘argot’ machine gun to blast away stupidity, but both aim dead center.

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Twilight Voices

The Architecture of Disaster (1)

20 December 2025
In keeping with our series on the great witnesses of contemporary history, European-Security offers this deep dive into the structural roots of our failures. Following our exploration of “The Twilight of Nations,” this new installment, […]

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Revue de Presse

Ulrich Siegmund, le grand vainqueur de l'AfD — Illustration IA © European-Security
Press Review

CDU: The Revolt Ahead of Schedule

12 September 2026
Germany is going through a major political crisis following the AfD’s crushing victory in Saxony-Anhalt in September 2026. This electoral earthquake has triggered the historic collapse of the CDU, plunging its leader Friedrich Merz into a state of extreme fragility amid internal challenges and rival ambitions. While the far right deploys a deliberate strategy to dismantle the traditional parties, a “shadow republic” made up of former officials fears a possible systemic breakdown. Internationally, this shift has drawn enthusiasm from populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, while alarming Germany’s European partners. The press, finally, points to the risk of a constitutional deadlock and a deep identity rift at the heart of Europe’s leading economic power.

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Press Review

Saxony-Anhalt: The AfD Landslide

7 September 2026
On Sunday 6 September, 1.7 million voters in Saxony-Anhalt renewed their Landtag. The result — the AfD near 44%, the CDU flattened, an SPD limiting the damage without recovering — was described as a “Zäsur” […]
Projection d’une frégate FDI naviguant en environnement arctique — illustration imaginant le futur rayon d’action des unités suédoises de classe Luleå, appelées à opérer bien au-delà de la seule mer Baltique — Illustration IA © Naval Group
Press Review

Who Loses Wins in the Far North?

1 September 2026
On Monday, August 31, aboard the frigate Amiral Ronarc’h moored in Stockholm, Emmanuel Macron and Ulf Kristersson sealed a ten-year-old Franco-Swedish defence partnership set to run for decades to come — four frigates, a strategic framework agreement, a nuclear steering group, French troops in the Swedish Arctic. In France, the event remained largely off the media radar. In Scandinavia, it made headlines, sparked debate, and, at times, controversy. A press review.

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Press Review

Epstein: The Silences and the Screams

6 February 2026
January 30, 2026, will remain the date when a “tabloid story” mutated into a generalized state crisis. With the declassification of 3 million pages by the US justice system, Pandora’s box has opened, unleashing a brutal and discordant symphony. On one side, the screams: the shattering fall of Lord Mandelson in London, the political turmoil surrounding Jack Lang in Paris, and the security alarm ringing in Berlin. On the other, the silences: the diplomatic omertà of Moscow, Beijing, and the Gulf, as heavy with meaning as the revelations themselves. Here is the anatomy of a week where the Western world discovered, with horror, the true extent of the trap set by Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ormuz, Red Sea: The Gulf War Enters European Budgets

15 September 2026
Iran will likely emerge from the conflict weakened. That does not mean the United States will emerge victorious. For several weeks now, this war has been acting less on territories or military capabilities than on flows, delays, costs, and expectations. For European companies building their 2027 budgets, Hormuz is no longer a distant geopolitical question.

[…]

Claude Martin, Ambassadeur de France — Photo Éditions L'Aube
Special Reports

Sixty Years of Chosen Vassalage (1)

13 September 2026
Claude Martin was France’s ambassador to Germany from 1999 to 2007. But long before holding that post, he had already been a quiet witness to it — a young diplomat in Bonn in the 1960s, a member of the Quai d’Orsay’s “Centre d’analyse et de prévision” in the 1970s, a deputy secretary-general in the 1990s. In his memoirs, Quand je pense à l’Allemagne, la nuit (L’Aube, 2023), he recounts, scene after scene, six decades of the same German reflex toward Washington — a reflex that runs through every government, every political color, and that no chancellor, not even the most Gaullist-compatible, has ever truly broken. What Bush was opening at Mainz in 1989 without naming it, Claude had seen coming, patiently, for thirty years already.

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Détroit de Bab el Mandeb — Photo © European-Security
Admiral Christian Gérard

The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait — Toward European Action?

13 September 2026
Admiral Christian Girard offers here a technical and historical corrective that stands in sharp contrast to the media excitement of the moment. While television panels sound the alarm over the simultaneous closure of the Arabian Peninsula’s two great maritime chokepoints, he recalls a structural difference too often overlooked: Hormuz has no maritime alternative whatsoever, whereas Bab-el-Mandeb can always be bypassed via the Cape of Good Hope — a route already carrying a large share of traffic since 2024.

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Entrée de Mhemet II dans Constantinople en 1876 par Benjamin Constant — Photo Musée des Augustins
Françoise Thom

Count Dracula’s Food Chain

12 September 2026
Why does Putin persist so relentlessly in trying to destroy Ukraine, at a cost in blood and treasure that even his own services must surely judge unsustainable? In this piece, historian Françoise Thom sets aside the usual explanations — revenge for the 2004 Orange Revolution, a desire to humiliate the West, fear of a democratic beacon on Russia’s doorstep — as insufficient on their own. Instead, she starts from the Russian president’s own words, increasingly unguarded with age and the habit of absolute power: in 2024, he admits that peace bores him and that action, even in the form of whistling bullets, reassures him; in 2026, he worries about what Russians will do once the war ends; and, speaking to teachers, he bluntly compares the world to a food chain in which orcas tear apart polar bears — a lesson, he says, that should be taught to children to justify the war.

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Ulrich Siegmund, le grand vainqueur de l'AfD — Illustration IA © European-Security
Press Review

CDU: The Revolt Ahead of Schedule

12 September 2026
Germany is going through a major political crisis following the AfD’s crushing victory in Saxony-Anhalt in September 2026. This electoral earthquake has triggered the historic collapse of the CDU, plunging its leader Friedrich Merz into a state of extreme fragility amid internal challenges and rival ambitions. While the far right deploys a deliberate strategy to dismantle the traditional parties, a “shadow republic” made up of former officials fears a possible systemic breakdown. Internationally, this shift has drawn enthusiasm from populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, while alarming Germany’s European partners. The press, finally, points to the risk of a constitutional deadlock and a deep identity rift at the heart of Europe’s leading economic power.

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Infoguerre (EUvsDiSiNFO) – Informationskrieg – Information Warfare

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Information Warfare

Saxony-Anhalt: The Russian Disinformation Campaign Ahead of the Vote

8 September 2026
In the final days before the September 6 election, an influence operation attributed by German authorities to the “Storm-1516” network — linked to Russian military intelligence (GRU) — attempted to discredit postal voting in Saxony-Anhalt. This was not an isolated strike: the same campaign had already targeted outgoing Minister-President Sven Schulze (CDU) a few weeks earlier, via a fake clone of the Süddeutsche Zeitung website.

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HUMINT - Infoguerre — Illustration © European-Security
Jérôme Denariez

Information Warfare: Who Really Controls Your Company’s Narrative?

29 December 2025
Information warfare and narrative reputation have become vital issues for corporate survival. Jérôme Denariez explains that public image—shaped on social media and forums—can now take precedence over the reality of accounting balance sheets. Executives, and particularly Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), must master this narrative to maintain the trust of investors and bankers in the face of toxic rumors.

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Information Warfare

Summoning the ghost of the Reich

17 July 2025
The Kremlin’s information manipulation apparatus is sparing no resources in its effort to cast Germany as a historical villain, saturating its channels with narratives of a resurgent, aggressive power. Russian state-controlled television and other pro-Kremlin outlets relentlessly push the idea that Germany is on a war footing, deliberately distorting Germany’s defensive security policies into a twisted fabrication of an offensive intent.

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Information Warfare

The French did it? The Kremlin playbook strikes again

29 May 2025
Last week saw a new, yet familiar narrative circulate aimed at discrediting the democratic elections in Romania and stirring mistrust of European institutions. According to a recent disinfor-mation narrative, France’s intelligence services some-how ‘rigged’ Romania’s elections to block hard-right presidential candidate George Simion, all under the watchful eye of a so-called ‘European mafia’. The story, amplified by pro-Kremlin and fringe platforms, falsely claims that Telegram founder Pavel Durov exposed a plot by French secret services to censor Romanian opposition voices – and that this censorship handed a stolen election to the elites. The tale does not stop there. It uses the idea that ‘the people never decide anything’, an assertion designed to amplify cynicism, ethnic division, and institutional distrust.

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Information Warfare

The Kremlin’s poisoned chalice of peace

1 May 2025
Moscow pays cynical lip service to peace efforts, blames Europe and Ukraine for Russia’s aggression, and ramps up historical revisionism ahead of WWII commemoration events. After more than three years of Russia waging an illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, peace has become the talk of the town in recent weeks. Especially, if the town in question is Washington or Moscow. There is no doubt that no one would like a just and durable peace more than Kyiv. But lately it has been Moscow making overtures to peace while falsely blaming Ukraine and Europe for Russia’s aggression. These manipulation attempts are as transparent as they are cynical.

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