The author believed that the face-to-face encounter between Iran and the United States would become a subject of study for students in international relations. He likened it to the deterrence of the "madman" against the powerful, while also qualifying this reading: according to him, the powerful camp was also unpredictable. #RelationsInternationales #Iran #ÉtatsUnis #IR #US (translated)
The author wished a good "NO" (OXI) day to his Greek friends. He recalled that the Greeks had opposed this refusal to Italian fascism on October 28, 1940, and then resisted their enemies until the Nazi intervention in spring 1941, describing this resistance as heroic and victorious. #OxiDay #Histoire #Résistance #GR #IT #DE (translated)
The author argued that Russia’s invasion of a smaller neighbour, annexation of part of its territory and multifaceted hybrid war against Europe were reasons Europeans might not be “demonising” Vladimir Putin. They said peace could begin if Russia accepted a ceasefire on the front line the following day. #Russie #Paix #Guerre #RU #EU
The post’s author argued that communication channels with an enemy should remain open during wartime because they could be useful. They said Europeans should step in, given their expectation that the United States would offer only the worst, and described the call as transparent to Ukraine and its allies. #Guerra #Comunicazione #Diplomazia #US #UA
The author wrote that Mississippi and Arkansas, which he presented as the two most homophobic states in the United States, were also the two poorest in the country. #Homophobie #Économie #ÉtatsUnis #US #MS #AR (translated)
The author wrote that the outgoing majority and the opposition differed substantially only in their personal stance toward Netanyahu.
The author wrote that parties associated with Bennett and Liberman, which they said were being described as the “Jewish center,” had been considered far-right by every analyst just a few years earlier. #Politik #Israel #Rechtsextremismus
The author wondered whether the problem lay in considering verbal violence or physical threats as part of political debate. (translated)
The author felt that an article was essential to understand what could happen in Washington in the coming weeks. #Washington #politique #actualité #US (translated)
The author believed that Russian policy alone demonstrated the validity of NATO membership, which was insistently demanded by countries recently freed from communist rule. #Politique #OTAN #Histoire #RU (translated)
The author estimated that the elimination of Parcoursup would shift the queues to each institution and stated that it seemed to have been forgotten the chaos that it had represented. #Parcoursup #Éducation #Réforme #FR (translated)
The author suggested that the dissent in Western societies was both economic and identity-related. He credited Donald Trump with bringing these two strands together, which he described as still cohabiting difficultly in France. #Rébellion #Identité #Économie #FR (translated)
The author asked whether readers had forgotten that right-wing parties had won Poland’s presidential election, come close to winning in Romania, and won general elections in Slovenia, Slovakia and Czechia. #Poland #Elections #RightWing #PL #RO #SI #SK #CZ
The author raised the question of whether Europeans were ready to consider a sustainable departure from the United States of Europe. He believed that Washington had become openly protectionist and would remain so, and that it could now regard the continent with indifference or hostility. #Europe #ÉtatsUnis #Politique #US (translated)
The author stated that the hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty by this policy did not share this analysis. He argued that it had been beneficial to the poor in poor countries as well as to the rich in rich countries. #Pauvreté #Économie #JusticeSociale #FR #CA (translated)
The author mentioned, in a formulation he presented as less romantic, a global crisis of liberal democracies with remarkably similar symptoms. (translated)
The author mentioned dogmatic free trade, the triumph of individualism, the isolation of elites, the transition from the entrepreneurial state to the managerial state, social networks, the excessive indebtedness of states, the end of Western dominance in the world, and demographic imbalances, before questioning a possible upheaval of the nation-state. (translated)
The author believed that the crisis benefited Moscow, Washington, and other actors he accused of inflaming tensions. He argued that its origins were global and common to liberal democracies, and lamented that these issues were not debated during the electoral campaign. #CriseMondiale #Démocratie #Élections #RU #US (translated)
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