In “Another world”, Alain Frachon deciphers the speeches of dictators

For Alain Frachon, the best way to understand dictators is to study what they say. About the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, he explains that “in July, he writes a long article which he puts on the Kremlin website. It’s an article in which he says: the Ukrainian state doesn’t exist, it’s a totally artificial construction that shouldn’t have been, it’s a mistake we made in Soviet times.“. Six months later, he made the decision to invade the country.

Among the risks of major conflict, Alain Frachon mentions in his book Taiwan. Are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping two dictators of equivalent nature? “I would rather be tempted to believe that in this case, on this case of Taiwan, Xi Jinping tells himself fewer stories than Putin told himself about Ukraine.“, he believes, also recalling that China is facing health and economic problems in his country.