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le vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand

From the Other Shore: Contemplation on the Shipwreck of the West

28 November 2025

Two centuries ago, Chateaubriand warned us against a society where “figures would replace principles.” We are there. Faced with the spectacle of an American democracy gangrenous with dirty money and mafia ties, and before the […]

The Witkoff / Dmitriev Peace Plan: Stupidity or High Treason?

26 November 2025

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 […]

The Tyranny of Denial and the Courage of Truth

24 November 2025

The ghosts of Sedan and 1940 are screaming a lesson that Europe refuses to hear: denial of reality always signs our death warrants. Facing Moscow, we are sleepwalking into the abyss. Following General Thierry Burkart, […]

The Russo-American “Peace”: Grand Bargain and the Vassalization of Europe

3 November 2025

The Russo-American “peace” is not a treaty of reconciliation, but the cynical manifesto of a grand bargain sealed at Europe’s expense. It is a bilateral diktat, designed to impose strategic vassalization on NATO and the EU. Massive territorial concessions, total amnesty for war crimes, and military neutralization of Kyiv: the document is an institutionalized capitulation. But what if this geopolitical seismic event were merely a smoke screen for a much more personal emergency in Washington?

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Contamination numérique de l'Europe — Illustration IA © European-Security

Europe Facing the Russian Information Offensive

1 November 2025

The reality is chilling. Europe is the target of an unprecedented information offensive led by Russia and China, authoritarian powers that have industrialized disinformation, turning lies into a weapon of hybrid warfare.

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Javier Milei — Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok

Our Prophets Are Always Wrong: A Tribute to French Wishful Thinking

29 October 2025

Why does the French elite consistently predict the opposite of what will happen? If our editorialists were meteorologists, we would be going out in flip-flops during storms and wearing winter coats in the middle of […]

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Chronicle of a Presidential Trainwreck

22 October 2025

One week. It took just one week for Donald Trump to remind us who he really is: a pathological narcissist coupled with a budding autocrat, incapable of the slightest restraint, allergic to any form of […]

Caricature de gendarmes à Berlin © European-Security

The Gendarmes of Berlin: (2) Mission Impossible on the Spree

8 October 2025

In the smoking ruins of 1945 Berlin, the French gendarmes arrived as an occupation force. Landing on July 3rd in the Wedding and Reinickendorf sectors, they set up at Camp Foch with a clear mission: […]

Manœuvres du P.A.M. avec le 17e RGP (02.1986) — Archives © Gendarmerie Nationale (Berlin)

The Berlin Gendarmerie Detachment 1945-1994 (1)

7 October 2025

In the smoking crater of Berlin, amidst the ruins of the vanquished Reich, French gendarmes follow in the footsteps of the occupying troops. Stationed at Camp Foch, they are first a force tasked with carving […]

Napoleons_Berlin_(27.10.1806) par Richard Knötel

Shattered Mirrors, Shared Destiny (4)

4 October 2025

The Franco-German epic is the story of a radical metamorphosis: the “hereditary enemy” transformed into the founding ally of Europe. It begins with the irony of 17th and 18th century France unwittingly arming Prussia through […]

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