More than 30 years ago, I explained that if Russia were humiliated as Weimar Germany had been, a dictator would take over in Moscow and, like Hitler, threaten to invade us. That is what happened: the West refused to help…
Nothing is more important today than creating a Europe of defense at a forced march. This will require Europeans to have total autonomy in their security resources, with many more weapons designed and built in Europe, and with absolute coordination…
This is the moment of truth. For at least 70 years, the idea of a common defense has been at the heart of the question of Europe’s future: we all know that there will be no real union of European…
It is time to put at the top of the bill a subject that will undoubtedly occupy French public opinion in the run-up to the next presidential election, and which is already occupying American public opinion and that of many…
Watching the staggering news coming out of the US every day (and there will surely be more between the time I finish writing this and the time it’s published), it’s hard to find a logic, to decipher a strategy. I…
Endless discussions about the number of migrants to be admitted occupy the media in all countries: some say that more are needed to fill jobs that are vacant due to a lack of skills or the refusal of nationals to…
Too often, when we observe a phenomenon, we forget to ask ourselves two essential questions: Is it new? Does it exist elsewhere? And yet, comparisons in time and space make an enormous contribution to forward-looking analysis. For example, we can’t…
There’s one question everyone should always ask themselves: who needs me? Anyone who answers “Nobody” is in great danger. Because, in the end, we are only defended, supported and protected by those who, for rational or emotional reasons, have an…
According to a fundamental theory of physics, the theory of information, noise becomes information when it makes sense in a frame of reference. When it doesn’t make sense, it interferes with the circulation of information, and can destroy the frame…
