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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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And Now for the Peace Nobel Prize the Winner Is…

23 August 2025
Suggesting the Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump is an act of magnificent audacity, almost as absurd as demanding the Nobel Prize for Virtue for Rocco Siffred. The latter has little chance of ever seeing the light of day because, since 1968, it has no longer been possible to expand the categories. Greta Thunberg will therefore not be getting a Nobel Prize for environmental activism either. Of course, audacity knows no bounds, especially when big egos are wallowing in the swamp of self-importance.

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It’s Time to Duck Donald

2 August 2025
Trump’s entire approach, from his personal brand to his governance and foreign policy, is a coherent expression of a strategy focused on perception, repetition, and a disregard for conventional norms. The world, preparing for war after decades of relative peace, is left to wonder how America will eventually “wake up” from this “deconstruction” and what the future holds. Not to forget a skillful exploitation of perception rather than facts, all in the service of a quest for personal power, ”unable to distinguish his personal interests from those of the nation,” as his former National Security Advisor John Bolton so

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Vice-Amiral Christian Girard — Photo © DR
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The 2025 National Strategic Review: update or overhaul?

26 July 2025
On 14 July, an update to the National Strategic Review (RNS 2025) was published. This update, commissioned by the French President of the Republic, complements the work carried out in 2022. It proposes the actions needed to adapt our defence to a new, deteriorating environment and outlines the country’s overall defence and rearmament, including moral rearmament, of the nation. Several questions arise: do we have the means to achieve our ambitions? Will we have the political will to implement them in order to right the ship after so many years of deliberate under-investment, so that France can, in the near future, hope to have the means to face a war of the intensity that the Russians are preparing in Europe for 2028-2030? As the 2022 national strategic review is being updated, Vice-Admiral (2s) Christian Girard [**] questions the foundations of French defence and the strategy that underpins it.

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Northrop Grumman B2-Spirit Bomber beim Abwurf einer GBU-57 – Foto: US Air Force
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« Midnight Hammer »: For Whom the Bell Tolls ?

22 June 2025
At midnight (French time), President Trump decided to strike a decisive blow. There is no doubt that this decision will have serious consequences. Even if the Trump administration in Washington denies wanting to bring down the Iranian government, the mullahs’ regime is no longer what it used to be. One can imagine the joy of the anxious Israelis who were waiting for this help that will come from the sky and the sea. Help that was undoubtedly delayed because Netanyahu forced Donald Trump’s hand and, by attacking Iran, stole some of his thunder by denting his rather inflated ego… It took guts. Bibi did it. He took a gamble and he won. American deterrence is therefore back, and in the Middle East, there is total relief. In Russia and China, the message has been received. Iran was a threat to far too many people! Europe tried to make its voice heard: this episode, one of many, will show that it remains unheard.

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