The outbreak of the Covid pandemic, coupled with the Ukrainian conflict, revealed the worrying servility of Western countries to the dictates of the WHO and the US, which resulted in the loss of decision-making power of European institutions and their total subordination to the geopolitical dictates of the US, leaving France as an irrelevant power…
The western conviction that Russia’s fragility is explained by its move away from the ‘Anglo’ economic doctrines reflects wishful thinking. The chaos that western ‘experts’ were expecting, ‘with libidinous excitement’, to unfold in Russia “which was certain to feature “Russians … killing Russians”, and with Putin “probably hiding somewhere.” – did arrive – except that…
Last week I published my thoughts on what was happening in France from a great power rivalry perspective. The infighting between factions and who represents whom is now just as chaotic and temporary as the situation on the ground in places where there is obvious conflict, like Ukraine. The protests in France are the culmination…
Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China did not quite go according to plan, though much depends on what was planned to begin with. In one sense, the French President was consistent, riding the hobbyhorse of Europe’s strategic autonomy, one hived off from the US imperium and free of Chinese influence. Europe’s third-way autonomy would be…
It is a centuries-old rule in politics that if you do not fare well politically within your own country, you should try and redirect the public gaze somehow onto the foreign policy. Given that the German Chancellor did not wish to take him along on his trip to China with his official delegation for economic…
En route back from his recent China visit, the French president suddenly started singing the praises of the independence of NATO’s European members vis-à-vis Washington. But words are cheap. Aboard the presidential plane, Emmanuel Macron revealed the apparent and sudden epiphany he had; that Western Europe really doesn’t have to ride shotgun alongside Washington every time…
