Arnaud Bertrand
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I can't think of a better time in history to be reminded of what De Gaulle used to say about NATO and American hegemony over Europe. This is all extracted from the book "C'était d...
The thesis of Colby's book is that the "China threat" consists in America losing, in his own words, "the ability to kill" China. To him the China threat is thus quite literally t...
Fascinating to read De Gaulle's view on colonization in a book written by his confidant Alain Peyrefitte. Not because he was a humanist, he definitely wasn't, but because unlike m...
First time I listen to geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan and I have to say, I've rarely heard someone as repugnant as him. For instance here he goes arguing that Europe should re-...
Alain Peyrefitte used to be De Gaulle's confidant. In 2002, 3 years after his death, his memoirs about De Gaulle ("C'était De Gaulle") were finally published. In it he revealed...
This is quite an extraordinary piece by @guardian, revealing the massive and worldwide propaganda campaign run by the UK during the Cold War. Some incredible and deeply disturbing...
When such a consummate diplomat as John Lander, who's been Australia's ambassador to Iran and Deputy Ambassador to China, tells you he's "reduced to despair" and feels like "a voic...
I'm currently reading the biography of Allen Dulles (book by David Talbot), the longest-serving Director of the CIA to date. His entire career would make any decent person squirm...
Fascinating historical fact: it was Stalin who insisted that the Nazi leaders be put on trial at Nuremberg. Churchill and Roosevelt wanted to take the law into their own hands and...
Currently reading Elbridge Colby's "Strategy of Denial" since it's becoming a very influential book in the US. Most striking to me is that the book is based on the premise that Ch...
We used to think that Russia's economy was the equivalent of a small European country. Maybe never before has an economy's importance been so grossly misjudged. French economist...
Fascinating interview by @gregtabibian of Alain Juillet, former head of France's intelligence services DGSE (French CIA equivalent) under Chirac: https://t.co/x5y5RDRtx8 I'll tran...