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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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Special Reports

Trump II: Chaos and Pity

5 September 2025
Since his reelection, we have relentlessly denounced the war Donald Trump is waging against Europe. In six months, he has shattered 80 years of the Western alliance, the pact that had guaranteed peace on our continent. The world is now crumbling beneath the feet of a fragile president. In six months, Donald Trump has methodically dismantled the legacy of our fathers: this Western alliance that nurtured peace in Europe is now nothing more than an epitaph. His pretext? To eradicate a so-called “deep state.” To what end?

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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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In Focus

From Real-Politik to Real-Estate Politics

30 August 2025
In 2025, peace in Ukraine is no longer a matter for diplomats, but for a real estate tycoon: Steve Witkoff, a friend of Trump, parachuted in as chief negotiator with zero experience. In the face of his blunders, all journalistic criticism is aggressively dismissed as a “foreign influence operation.” This marks the rise of “Real-Estate-Politik,” where war is treated like just another business deal. This playbook, first seen with Jared Kushner in the Middle East, reduces geopolitics to a transaction. Nations become assets, borders become contractual clauses, and human lives are a mere liability. The complexity of history is denied in favor of a bottom-line mentality. Peace is no longer an ideal to strive for, but simply a deal to be closed. And the greatest tragedy is watching the world applaud this deadly oversimplification.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford in the Norwegian Sea

28 August 2025
While stylistic differences exist between the Biden and Trump administrations, a fundamental continuity in American foreign policy—centered on military power projection and great power competition—persists. Joël-François Dumont dissects here Donald Trump’s “Peace through Strength” doctrine, highlighting its transactional nature and his personal quest for the Nobel Peace Prize as a validation of his anti-liberal approach to international relations. Both Biden’s or Trmp’s administrations, despite radically different styles, consistently employ military power projection as a core instrument of U.S. foreign policy. The fundamental divergence lies in the objective of this power: Biden seeks to uphold the liberal multilateral order, while Trump aims to dismantle it for transactional, unilateral gains. The USS Gerald R. Ford thus serves as a potent symbol adaptable to two contrasting visions of global engagement, while addressing enduring strategic imperatives, particularly confronting Russia in the Arctic.

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In Focus

In Anchorage, the Kremlin Master’s Ascendancy over the Drunken Ship of American Diplomacy

25 August 2025
The Anchorage Summit, held on August 15, 2025, between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, is presented by Laure Mandeville as a tragicomic illustration of American diplomatic failure. Far from being a negotiation, it was a « meticulously executed Russian psychological operation » resulting in a « strategic triumph for the Kremlin and a profound, self-inflicted humiliation for the United States. » The summit exposed the « ascendancy of a calculating master of the Kremlin over the « drunken boat » of American diplomacy, » with Putin using Trump as a « prop in a drama of his own country’s debasement. » The core message is that the US, driven by presidential ego and strategic incompetence, inadvertently legitimized Putin, eroded its own credibility, and dangerously imperiled the European security order by pressuring Ukraine to accept territorial concessions.

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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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