You think you might be dreaming. Here's a new virus that appeared in Wuhan thirteen months ago and has killed two million people worldwide since, and China is making a fuss to issue visas to scientists on a World Health Organization fact-finding mission to try to understand the exact origin of the disease! Even the … Lire la suite de What China is trying to hide?
Rethinking our strategy for the Sahel
The French military has now been deployed in the Sahel for eight years. In a single week, straddling New Year's Day 2021, five of its soldiers died there. They were killed in eastern Mali by home-made bombs hidden under the sand, known in military jargon as IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) since the last Western interventions … Lire la suite de Rethinking our strategy for the Sahel
America despises those who court it
Boris Johnson is psychologically preparing the United Kingdom for the worst-case scenario in its relations with the European Union, namely the same status as Australia (which its OWN Prime Minister has described as execrable). In his campaign for Brexit in the first half of 2016, the thunderous Boris promised his Eurosceptic voters the best in … Lire la suite de America despises those who court it
Lebanon’s inability to help itself
Help yourself, heaven will help you! Lebanon still fails to realise what the muddled Chartier de La Fontaine managed to do. It still cannot help itself. Lebanon, once an example of democracy and entrepreneurial energy for the entire Arab-Muslim world, has been stuck for a year and a half in the most serious financial crisis … Lire la suite de Lebanon’s inability to help itself
Iran will not fall into the Israeli trap
The assassination, on a road east of Tehran on 27 November 2020, of the father of Iran's nuclear programme, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, constitutes a double challenge to the theocratic regime that has ruled Iran for forty years. First challenge: the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) Corps, so quick to arrest harmless political opponents, has proved incapable of securing … Lire la suite de Iran will not fall into the Israeli trap
Trump’s geo-economic defeat in Asia
On 15 November 2020, on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, chaired by Vietnam, the world's largest regional free trade agreement was signed. This RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) is an agreement involving all ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei) as well … Lire la suite de Trump’s geo-economic defeat in Asia
A Dangerous Germain Illusion
In their overwhelming majority, the Germans welcomed the American presidential election of Tuesday, November 3, 2020, which has removed Donald Trump from power, if not influence over half of the population of the United States. The 45th American president had not been kind to Germany. He had successively accused Germany of being stingy in its … Lire la suite de A Dangerous Germain Illusion
Americans will deal with Iran
Whoever wins the presidential election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the Americans will deal with Iran, the flagship country of the Shiite world. For it is not only their interest, but also their will. Less and less hidden. If it is the Democrat Joe Biden who becomes the 46th president of the United States, he … Lire la suite de Americans will deal with Iran
Let’s create a diplomacy that serves our interests!
Gérald Darmanin left for Moscow on 26th October 2020. The Minister of the Interior, who does not want a second beheading of a professor, went to ask the Russians to agree to take back home the radicalised Chechen Muslims residing on French territory. The latter came as political refugees from the end of the 1990s, … Lire la suite de Let’s create a diplomacy that serves our interests!
The massive abuse of the right to asylum
The family of the Chechen terrorist who beheaded Professor Samuel Paty in the street was a regular resident of France, enjoying the right of asylum. A political refugee, the killer was in possession of a regular residence permit, valid until 2030. To show his gratitude to the Republic for giving him asylum, for providing him … Lire la suite de The massive abuse of the right to asylum
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