Reflectii

En 1982, dans son livre «La politique de la France à l’égard de l’Ukraine, mars 1917-1918», Wolodymyr Kosyk affirme :

«Que [le peuple ukrainien] ait porté différents noms au cours de son histoire ne change rien au fait qu’il s’agit toujours du même peuple, ayant gardé les mêmes caractéristiques ethniques, le même caractère, la même spécificité, assimilant facilement les éléments venus s’y ajouter et refusant de s’identifier aux corps étrangers du point de vue national».

La tolérance à quoi

Tel est le monde que l’«élite» libérale, européiste et postmoderne préconise que vous acceptiez, au nom d’une «tolérance» qui s’autorise le plus grand mépris de tout ce qui est noble, saint, intelligent, édifiant et authentiquement grand : celui du spectacle démoniaque des Olympiades – wokiste – de Paris en 2024. Ah, qu’il est beau le «progrès» contemporain, n’est-il pas ? Des «élites» à l’avant-garde du «capitalisme éveillé» et qui signent leurs œuvres prônant la débauche et la fétidité contrenature, sans s’apercevoir qu’ils ne font que préparer et répéter les errements post-civilisationnels qui ont amené les effondrements des empires du passé…

Pourquoi l’OTAN a-t-elle été si généralement acceptée en Europe par presque tous les grands partis politiques et, surtout, par les sociaux-démocrates ? Ses coûts économiques, ses guerres d’agression illégales, ses dommages environnementaux et les risques d’anéantissement nucléaire semblent en faire un élément de premier ordre. Il est peu probable que des militants politiques bien informés croient qu’une invasion de la Suisse ou du Danemark est imminente. Il existe d’importants mouvements anti-OTAN, tels que Non à la guerre, Non à l’OTAN, mais jusqu’à présent, ils n’ont pas été en mesure d’inverser la tendance.

Convivencia: Spanish noun, from convivir, to live with the other, used by historians in the 20th century to describe inter-religious coexistence in al-Andalus, between the 8th and 15th centuries. The roots of this word, and of its Occitan twin Convivéncia, lie in an ancient Pyrenean matrimonial alliance. (1) In the 8th century, Llívia, a small Pyrenean town in Cerdagne, welcomed an Amazigh/Berber-Occitan couple. He was killed, she was exiled, the marriage ended badly. But this union, later magnified by the romantics, continues to nourish the concept of Convivencia, a concept with strong political potential. A story of halted territorial expansion, a pact between dissidents, an “unnatural” marriage and, ultimately, the re-establishment of the warrior order.

There’s no restoring the trust that was just lost at that level, but the Polish-Hungarian Brotherhood still endures in the hearts of their patriots since they’ll never let politicians break the bonds between them.

Polish-Hungarian tensions have been boiling for the past two and a half years due to their polar opposite approaches towards the latest phase of the Ukrainian Conflict and finally spilled over this weekend. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lambasted Poland in a speech where he accused it of seeking to replace the EU’s traditional Franco-German axis with a new one comprised of itself, the UK, Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Scandinavia, with the innuendo being that this is contributing to continental instability.

The CIA, the Coup Against Allende, and the Rise of Pinochet

On September 9, 1973, I was eating lunch at Da Carla, an Italian restaurant in Santiago, Chile, when a colleague joined my table and whispered in my ear: “Call home immediately; it’s urgent.” At the time, I was serving as a clandestine CIA officer. Chile was my first overseas assignment, and for an eager young spymaster, it was a plum job. Rumors of a military coup against the socialist Chilean president, Salvador Allende, had been swirling for months. There had already been one attempt. Allende’s opponents were taking to the streets. Labor strikes and economic disarray made basic necessities difficult to find. Occasionally, bombs rocked the capital. The whole country seemed exhausted and tense. In other words, it was exactly the kind of place that every newly minted CIA operative wants to be.

From the earliest days of my Presidency, I have argued that our world is at an inflection point.

How we respond to the tremendous challenges and the unprecedented opportunities we face today will determine the direction of our world and impact the security and prosperity of the American people for generations to come. The 2022 National Security Strategy outlines how my Administration will seize this decisive decade to advance America’s vital interests, position the United States to outmaneuver our geopolitical competitors, tackle shared challenges, and set our world firmly on a path toward a brighter and more hopeful tomorrow.

NEW DEMOCRACIES, OLD WOUNDS
“No one touches anyone,” warned General Augusto Pinochet in October 1989, two months before Chile’s first free elections since his 1973 coup. “The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law ends. This I say once and will not say again.” The old junta leader’s comment, made almost casually to reporters, cast a pall over the fiesta-like campaign atmosphere. As expected, the anti-Pinochet forces won. But the general’s warning still hangs in the air. Pinochet’s democratic successors have chosen not to call his bluff.

Nothing contained therein can credibly be described as “pro-Russian” or even “Russian-friendly”, but simply pragmatic since he argues that the failure to act could entail higher financial and other costs for the EU, especially if Trump wins the election and shifts the burden for supporting Ukraine onto the bloc.

Neoliberalism is far deadlier in underdeveloped countries, where it is wreaking havoc like Ebola.

Production and the reproduction of wealth are, therefore, central to Smith’s doctrine on development. Despite this, he posited that the capitalists, if unchecked, will disrupt societal development. First, that their desperation to acquire monopoly position restraints free competition; reduces the employment of productive labour; negatively affects the quality of commodities; discourages commerce; kills initiative; and decreases state revenue.