Etiket: Taillefer
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Erdoğan is an earthquake-shaken fortress
The death toll reached 40,000 on Wednesday and would continue to worsen massively, warned the UN, more than a week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria.…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Tanks and dead
Another military taboo has been broken in the conflict in Ukraine with London’s decision, announced on Saturday, to deliver fourteen Challenger 2 heavy assault tanks to the Ukrainian army “in…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] With unequal weapons at the top of the “three amigos”
“We are true partners,” proclaimed Joe Biden at the end of the Summit of North American Leaders on Tuesday in Mexico City. From this encounter between amigos leaning to the…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Weapons have spoken enough
That Volodymyr Zelensky gave the Americans his first visit abroad since the start of the war ten months ago will have been significant in more ways than one. By going…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The Qatar of all scandals
And three! There was, under Nicolas Sarkozy, the scandal of shenanigans around the granting in 2010 of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar against the purchase of French military planes;…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The undressed mullahs
A first hanging for example, last Thursday, that of a demonstrator, Mohsen Shekari, 23, tried for “enmity against God” for having blocked a street and injured a bassidji militiaman of…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The sick dictatorship of Xi Jinping
“A spark can set the whole plain on fire. » Said Mao Zedong, taking up a Chinese proverb in a letter dated January 5, 1930, some twenty years before the…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Break the Haitian bandit-state
ourde is the responsibility of the international community — the United States, Canada, France, etc. — in the appalling disintegration of the Haitian state that we are witnessing. This responsibility…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Cold War Conflict Management 2.0
We expected no less from the summit meeting that Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping had on Monday in Bali, their first non-virtual face-to-face to be held since the arrival…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Glass half full…
An optimistic lesson from the midterm elections is that Donald Trump carries a virus that a telling proportion of Americans do not want to be infected with. Easy to forget,…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Lula’s too short victory
Crucial victory for the left, of course, that of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Brazilian presidential election, but victory won on the wire with a tiny majority of…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Geopolitics of cobalt, the toxic transition
In the race against time against global warming, before the waiting lists to get an electric car from its dealership, there are major problems of unbridled mining and respect for…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] A lack of stature on the international scene
By the end of the election campaign, the editorial team of the To have to will offer an analysis of the main commitments of political parties on themes that concern…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] In the shadow of Putin
Neither Xi Jinping and even less Vladimir Putin will be part of this great annual gathering of heads of state and government that is the United Nations General Assembly which…
Taillefer butcher’s shop in the halls of Pau
On September 16 and 17, the butchers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine will wear the colors of the “Mon Boucher à la Côte” season 2 operation. On the program: exchanges and meetings to…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Scotland in question mark
Second referendum on independence or not, in Scotland? At the beginning of August, in a debate between candidates for the succession of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss had judged that the…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The squandered legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev
December 1987: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a global disarmament treaty in Washington providing for the elimination of intermediate nuclear missiles from both countries. Key moment in the end…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The United Kingdom in a state of shrinkage
he news fell like a bomb in the UK last Friday, with the announcement by the British energy regulator (OFGEM) that gas and electricity bills will jump by 80% in…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] The long sobs of war
From the funeral in Moscow of the “martyr” Daria Douguina (“She is our Joan of Arc”, according to a Russian chronicler) to the “museum” of demolished Russian tanks which are…
[Éditorial de Guy Taillefer] Liz’s Epiphany, Donald’s Nets
The end is the beginning. Beaten to the hilt in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Wyoming but vowing to ‘do whatever it takes’, in the name of God and freedom, to…