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Putin is locked in a race against the clock: he must crush Ukraine quickly to then vassalize European elites by exploiting their rejection of Trump. The conclusion is unequivocal: faced with this trap, Europe must choose neither the plague nor the cholera, but stand united against the “two gangsters” by continuing to support Kyiv.

With surgical precision, Françoise Thom provides more than just a situational analysis; she offers an X-ray of a political monstrosity reaching its terminal stage. In this essay, Thom analyzes the imperialist and expansionist ideology of […]

In this scathing op-ed,[1] Françoise Thom denounces the Witkoff/Dmitriev plan as a total capitulation dictated by the Kremlin and imposed by the Trump administra-tion. She exposes a cynical strategy aimed not only at subjugating Ukraine […]

In this essay, Françoise Thom demonstrates that Russia’s strategy of economic confrontation did not begin with Putin’s rise to power, but unfolded in a new form as early as the 1990s. Far from being aid, Western funds fueled systemic corruption. Billions from the IMF and the World Bank were massively siphoned off by oligarchs. This money was then laundered with the passive complicity of major Western banks.

The appeal of the Russian market, perceived as an El Dorado by Westerners, stems from a historical strategic blindness. For centuries, the West has deluded itself into believing that trade can integrate Russia as a rational and peaceful player in the global economy. However, this vision is fundamentally flawed. For the Kremlin, from the Tsarist era to the present day, trade is not an end in itself, but a pure instrument of power. It is a means of acquiring technology and capital to strengthen its military apparatus and consolidate its regime, while weakening its adversaries.