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Le Serpent à plumes de New Delhi

La nomination de Gor n’est pas l’exécution politique d’un homme ; elle est une manœuvre clé dans l’exécution planifiée de l’ordre de sécurité européen et de l’alliance transatlantique. Loin d’être une simple anecdote diplomatique, cet événement doit être analysé comme un symptôme et un instrument de la « guerre grise ». […]

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La guerre grise : Dollars, data et donations

La Russie combine un lobbying officiel peu efficace à une capture des élites plus discrète via des partenariats. Cette stratégie exploite la polarisation politique et le déclin de la confiance dans les institutions, révélant une vulnérabilité sociétale profonde aux États-Unis. […]

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The Gray War: Dollars, Data, and Donations

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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From Real-Politik to Real-Estate Politik

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

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. […]

Chavirage du Trump & Co en musique dans l'Arctyique — Illustration © European-Security
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In Anchorage: Die Vormachtstellung des Kreml-Chefs über das trunkene Schiff der amerikanischen Diplomatie

Der Anchorage-Gipfel, der am 15. August 2025 zwischen US-Präsident Donald Trump und dem russischen Prä-sidenten Wladimir Putin stattfand, wird von Laure Mandeville als „tragikomische Illustration” des diploma-tischen Versagens der USA dargestellt. Weit entfernt von einer Verhandlung handelte es sich um eine „sorgfältig ausgeführte russische Psychologische Operation”, die zu einem „strategischen Triumph für den Kreml und einer tiefen, selbstverschuldeten Demütigung für die Vereinigten Staaten” führte. Der Gipfel habe „die Vorherrschaft eines berechnenden Meisters des Kremls über das „betrunkene Boot“ der amerikanischen Diplomatie“ offenbart, wobei Putin Trump als „Requisite in einem Drama der Erniedrigung seines eigenen Landes“ benutzt habe. Die Kernaussage lautet, dass die USA, getrieben vom Ego des Präsidenten und strategischer Inkompetenz, Putin unbeabsichtigt legitimiert, ihre eigene Glaubwürdigkeit untergraben und die europäische Sicherheitsordnung gefährlich gefährdet haben, indem sie die Ukraine zu territorialen Zugeständnissen gedrängt haben. […]

Paquebot Trump & Co Arctique — Illustration © European-Security
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In Anchorage, the Kremlin Master’s Ascendancy over the Drunken Ship of American Diplomacy

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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Hedy Belhassine

And Now for the Peace Nobel Prize the Winner Is…

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. […]