Great nations do not always have the leaders they deserve. This is the case of the Israeli nation, the only democracy in the Middle East,…
Great nations do not always have the leaders they deserve. This is the case of the Israeli nation, the only democracy in the Middle East,…
In the Middle East, religious extremists have once again derailed the fragile peace train. On 4 November 1995, Israeli Jewish extremists assassinated their Prime Minister,…
After cutting off supplies to the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh (population 120,000) for nine months, Azerbaijani forces went on the attack on 18 September. After…
Several French government statements in August suggested that France might become involved militarily in Niger in order to restore constitutional order. On July 26, a…
Faced with the growing number of anti-French demonstrations in French-speaking Africa – in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and now Niger –…
Indonesia, the latest major power to do so, proposed a new peace plan for Ukraine on 3 June at the Shangri-La Asian Security Forum in…
Often, in its international strategy, France launches praiseworthy initiatives. But, alas, it also frequently shows itself incapable of executing them well. By a mixture of…
Some people, even across the Channel, have expressed indignation at the “outrageous” cost of the coronation of King Charles III on last Saturday, in London….
In a 1965 press conference, the visionary General de Gaulle denounced the “exorbitant privilege of the dollar”. The American currency had indeed become by far…
Frequent followers of wishful thinking, the major Western media have stressed over and over again that nothing important – neither an arms deal nor a…
Just one year ago, President Putin took the heavy decision to go to war against his neighbor. Was Ukraine a threat to Russia’s existence, sovereignty…