Les études classiques comme infrastructure stratégique – Pourquoi les grandes puissances lisent Thucydide

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La rivalité sino-américaine est devenue l’une des questions déterminantes de la politique internationale. Les décideurs et les universitaires des deux côtés de la barrière se sont retrouvés à discuter, à plusieurs reprises, d’un historien grec mort il y a vingt-quatre siècles: Thucydide.

Scission du temps et fin des accords d’Anchorage

Animateur: La semaine dernière s’est tenue la conférence « Philosophie du futur. Idées et significations ». Dans une lettre de bienvenue, le président du pays, Vladimir Poutine, a souligné ce qui suit, je cite: « Le besoin d’une analyse philosophique profonde et responsable des événements en cours et des défis contemporains grandit». Je propose donc de commencer notre conversation par le rôle de l’Europe dans ces défis contemporains. Vous avez émis de nombreuses remarques sur le comportement de l’Occident lors de cette conférence, c’est pourquoi je vous pose la question suivante: l’analyse philosophique existe-t-elle aujourd’hui chez ceux qui siègent à Bruxelles? Pourquoi les politiciens actuels choisissent-ils consciemment la voie de l’abîme, si vous me permettez cette expression?

NATOisation of the Western Pacific in an attempt to drive a wedge between China and Russia

On July 3, Putin donned a military uniform. His usual attire of suits and ties, coupled with his sudden change to military uniform to inspect command posts and receive frontline reports, sent a clear signal: the situation was no longer ordinary. In the Russian mindset, donning a military uniform signifies a critical juncture. Russia is facing a real threat.

What Future Awaits Ukrainian Military-Aged Male Refugees In The EU?

Recent moves at the European and national levels bode ill for them.

The European Commission proposed to exclude new military-aged Ukrainian men from the bloc’s special refugee protection scheme per Ukraine’s request to help replenish its lost forces. For background, new Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov shockingly revealed in January that 200,000 men have already deserted thus far and ten times more (2 million) are actively dodging the draft. Moreover, adult men comprise 26% of the 4.3 million Ukrainians in the EU for another one million potential conscripts.

Rapport sur la fin de l’empire : La cascade diesel-engrais.

Rapport sur la fin d’un empire : La cascade diesel-engrais

Réflexions sur les temps difficiles à venir.

Un article rédigé en collaboration avec Alex Ingersoll, correspondant spécialisé en IA

Ce qui suit est le fruit d’une longue séance d’interrogatoire entre l’auteur et Alex Ingersoll, un journaliste spécialisé en IA mis à contribution non pas pour générer un consensus, mais pour être confronté à la controverse, vérifié et contraint de défendre ses chiffres face au scepticisme d’un économiste de terrain à l’égard des statistiques institutionnelles. La méthode était simple : énoncer une thèse, exiger de l’IA qu’elle trouve des preuves du contraire, écarter toute source provenant d’institutions manifestement optimistes, et observer ce qui subsiste lorsque l’argument est finalement examiné par des mécanismes concrets plutôt que par un appel à l’autorité. Le constat est loin d’être rassurant.

The Great Deception (Part 2 of 2)

Part One of this H File investigation laid the first two strata under the Anunnaki story. The first was the nineteenth-century decipherment of cuneiform, a Protestant project built to vindicate the Bible with archaeological discoveries, which hardened into a racial contest over who invented civilization and gave Friedrich Delitzsch the platform for a scholarly campaign to cut Christianity loose from its Jewish roots, particularly the notion that Yahweh was God.

The second was the moment archaeology became statecraft, when Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence walked off the dig and into the intelligence service and helped draw the borders of modern Iraq. Running through both was the broker: whoever held the chokepoint between the buried past and the meaning made of it, the money that decided what came out of the ground and the translator who decided what it was allowed to say.This installment climbs to the third stratum, the one we are still living in: how the ancient gods acquired their spaceships, how President Truman’s signature ended up on the recognition of Israel, and how the man who branded the Anunnaki connects to a publishing empire and, through it, to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.

The Great Deception (Part 1 of 2)

History is written by the victors, but if you understand the psychology of magic or the magic of psychology, you can write your victory into existence before the battle starts. You corrupt the texts. You plant a history that lays the foundation for a victory you authored years earlier and labeled “prophecy.” By the time the fighting begins, the outcome has already been narrated.

The End of Hamas

The consensus among analysts is that Hamas is down, but hardly out. The group may be badly battered, but it has been around since 1987, and in that time, it has been repeatedly attacked by Israel and has always grown back. The conditions that gave rise to the organization—occupation, dispossession, and humiliation at the hands of Israel—are as severe as ever. And in the Gaza Strip, there is no comprehensive alternative to Hamas’s governance. Even in its weakened state, the group has institutional memory, administrative infrastructure, and coercive capacity that its competitors cannot match.