It was the clearest of confessions. When Vladimir Putin said last Thursday, 23 November: Donald Trump is “an intelligent man who already has a lot of experience. I think he will find a solution”, this sycophancy was obviously a cry for help.
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The meeting was intended to be discreet, and it was. Coming from the Russian and Central European...
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Will we be up to the challenge? It is far from impossible. It is even far from unlikely, but those who say in such large numbers that we will not be able to cope with Donald Trump and that Europe will soon crumble under his blows are unfortunately not short of arguments.
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The reasons for this are not specifically American, as there are many other Trumps around the world. Nor does it have anything to do with Joe Biden’s belated withdrawal, since Donald Trump had already won over half the American people months earlier.
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“If it’s Harris, you’ll see”, people will have said a lot by Tuesday, “the Europeans...
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There are worse things than Russian interference. If the ‘yes’ to the European Union only won by such a narrow margin in Moldova, it was not just because huge numbers of votes were bought by Mr Putin’s services, and because they flooded the electorate with false news at the same time. In both Georgia and Moldova, this interference was highly effective, but it does not explain everything.
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For twenty-four hours on Monday 14 October, Communist China surrounded Taiwan. One hundred and fifty-three aircraft and 36 ships cut the country off from the world, but however impressive this show of force was, what was it all about?
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We know what we wish for. We wish for accession and accession: accession to the EU and accession...
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In the first scenario, everything is tragically clear. If Donald Trump is elected on 5 November, he will not wait even until he takes office to seal with Vladimir Putin a division of Ukraine, based on the model of the two Germanies or the two Koreas.
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Emmanuel Macron was not wrong. When Joe Biden called for the fighting in Gaza to stop, coherence would dictate that he no longer supply the weapons that sustain the fighting. Even a child would understand this, but where is the coherence when this same Emmanuel Macron postpones the recognition of Palestine until who knows when, even though France has always defended the idea of coexistence between two states, Israel and Palestine, and he has himself endorsed this idea?
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