Françoise Thom

Poutone Double jeu — Illustration © European-Security
Françoise Thom

President Putin’s Final Battle

2 February 2026
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.

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Patriotic Meeting in Moscow
Françoise Thom

Total War, the Culmination of Putinism

22 December 2025
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 […]
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Françoise Thom

Economic Relations, an Underestimated Weapon in the Kremlin’s Hybrid War Against the West. II. Contagion

29 September 2025
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.

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Françoise Thom

Economic Relations, an Underestimated Weapon in the Kremlin’s Hybrid War against the West – I. The Leninist Imprint

11 September 2025
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.

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Robert Maxwell
Françoise Thom

Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair

30 July 2025
In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his accomplice Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell, the late British press magnate, on the one hand, and the upper echelons of Soviet and then Russian power on the other. This raises a troubling question: what if it was the FSB that held the infamous “list” of Epstein’s clients? What better way to compromise the American elite than to possess evidence of participation in orgies with minors?

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Françoise Thom

Toward a Putin–Trump Pact?

30 April 2025
The Kremlin’s “dogma” is flexible. Since the end of World War II, the USSR viewed the United States as its greatest ideological adversary. Under Putin’s leader-ship, it was believed that the war in Ukraine was in fact a war between the U.S. and Russia, with Euro-peans merely acting as American vassals. With Trump, the narrative shifted. Now, Europe is accused of being “fascist,” while Russia and the US are cast as allies for “peace.” Françoise Thom offers a meticulous analysis of this new Russian doctrine, based on a document recently published by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Desk Russia has decided to publish the full translation of this publication attributed by the SVR to Mr Tcheremnykh and V. Motchalov and asked Françoise Thom to analyse it. The new honeymoon with Washington is forcing the SVR of the Russian Federation to reorient the Russian national narrative. ‘European special services are ready to do anything to achieve their criminal goal, namely to perpetuate the conflict in Ukraine between NATO member states and Russia,’ the SVR warned on its website on 24 April. In the past, we read Krokodil; today, we look at the SVR website! Perhaps Putin’s entourage has decided that the Kremlin’s propa-gandists have become so inept that even Medvedev’s outbursts no longer have any impact.

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Françoise Thom

Russia’s Plan for the United States

13 April 2025
“The interests of Russian oligarchs converge with those of Big Tech magnates. Putin and the major oligarchs, both Russian and American, believe themselves to be above the law. Putin’s con-tempt for the law goes so far that he calls into question the very notion of the state, precisely because a state is based on a legal framework and has borders, which he dislikes. Trumpism aims to replace the state with a Putin-style ‘vertical power structure’, in which officials are chosen for their loyalty rather than their compe-tence. The dismantling of the state is accompanied by deregulation, which benefits the big oligarchs who aspire to become masters of financial flows. This is why Kremlin strategists understood very early on what services Western libertarians could provide them,‘ writes Françoise Thom in Le Monde, adding: ’Douguin’s ideas have permeated Putin’s regime and inspired the policy of destroying the United States that has been implemented for the past 20 years. The aim is to inflict on the US the same blows that it allegedly dealt to the USSR under Gorbachev, depriving it of its allies, unilaterally disarming it, ruining its economy

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