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EDITORIAL. The war in Ukraine could propel Tokyo and Berlin to the 3rd and 4th ranks of military powers, behind the United States and China.
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By Luc de Barochez
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RNothing is more symbolic of the geopolitical upheaval triggered by the war in Ukraine than the rapid rearmament of the two great losers of 1945. In Berlin as in Tokyo, military budgets are visibly swelling and hawks are taking precedence over doves . The Russian aggression against Ukraine had the same effect on Germany and Japan as the Nazi invasion of Poland had on Great Britain in 1939: that of a belated but radical awareness of a danger hitherto underestimated.
In the first half of the XXand century, both countries were militaristic, aggressive and expansionist. Defeated and forced to capitulate after the carnage of the Second World War, they then forged, under the tutelage of Washington, a new national, democratic identity.
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the appeal of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, he became after his death a myth, an ideal politician that on the right and on the left we begin to regret.
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