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Vulnerability of the United States, rise to power of China, fear of Putin… Across the Atlantic, editorial writers and essayists are breaking taboos.
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By Brice Couturier
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VSOf course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 did not exactly take Washington by surprise. Warned by their “big ears” of its imminence, the Americans had warned the European capitals, then incredulous, several weeks in advance. However, the event somewhat disconcerted American experts in international relations. It was not on this side that their attention was mainly turned. They were obsessed with the rise of the Chinese rival and often worried about the weak capacity of the United States to deal with it. They were alarmed, in particular, by the erosion of United States naval power and the vulnerability of undersea cables (see Bruce D. Jones’ book To Rule the Waves. How Control of the World’s…
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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