J'ai beaucoup apprécié votre message dont la lecture est très instructive. J'ai souvent ri aux petites pointes ironiques qui émaillent vos propos. Bien entendu, je vois les événements décrits du même point de vue que vous.
Je pensais ces derniers jours à un ouvrage paru au siècle dernier: "Ces malades qui nous gouvernent" en me disant: Le prochain devra s'intituler : Ces malades mentaux qui nous gouvernent. Mais on devrait bien sûr proposer : "Ces chefs d'Etat atteints du Trouble de la Personnalité Narcissique" . Et quelqu'un y a pensé il y a déjà 8 ans : Ces psychopathes qui nous gouvernent.
Il faut que les peuples apprennent à ne plus élire des candidats atteints du NPD. Quand cela adviendra, ce sera un grand progrès pour l'humanité.
J'ai une grande admiraition pour Vaclav Havel, et j'aimais bien aussi ce président uruguayen qui ne voulait pas résider dans le palais présidentiel, et utilisait sa voiture "classe moyenne".
Your primary assumption regarding Israel running this show is incorrect. DJT and his inner circle seek to use wars to deflect the Epstein case and the declining economic well-being of the vast majority of Americans. Inflation and stagnation of real (chain-linked) wages are hammering the majority of Americans. They also seek to cancel midterm elections, declaring a national emergency. Venezuela and Cuba are additional distractions. Israel depends on US largess and support. They cooperate and follow the lead of the current administration.
I've made similar arguments about Israel. If it didn't invade Gaza, if it used 10/7 as an attack to get more money into Israel to help the Palestinians. If it did more to improve their life, to give them full citizenship, they could get a Greater Israel. Instead, they've taken on the whole Middle East. In going for everything they'll end up with nothing.
Much of the M.E. is strongly against theocracies and jihadism. Note that few countries accept(ed) refugees from Palestine. Also note that ~20% of Israelis are Muslim and choose to live there because they have a far better life than elsewhere. Israel is not seeking to take over the M.E. It has been attacked by many Arab countries since 1947, and seeks to end that. They have support from some M.E countries now. The right wingers need to be stopped, and Netanyahu needs to go. Then stability might be possible.
In the past couple of years I've heard that often from Israelis "Netanyahu will be shown the door as soon as we finish eliminating Hamas and Iran." Netanyahu will indeed be shown the door. But every dual-national Israeli will have already left, never to come back. Just my opinion, Israel committed suicide the day the IDF entered Gaza.
The IDF will experience the highest rate of suicide in the decades ahead. There is no intelligence left in Israel. It's all been marginalized. I get where you're coming from. I just believe those days are long gone. Iran wasn't preventing Israel from prospering. Nor was Hamas. Ultimately, small countries that over-play their expansionist plans with larger countries get nothing.
I predicted that in a video two days ago. https://youtu.be/lfY28KpqpU0 There is nothing new here in Iranian strategy. The only difference is they aren't giving advance warning to those who support the U.S./Israeli attacks.
Whether or not Trump is in early dementia, (seems fairly likely he could be), there are some pretty despererate policies close to the President which are being acted on. And we even got served up with the 'civilisation at stake' trope by our PM in the UK this last year.
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference on 14 February 2026 and delivered a speech that will be remembered less for its policy prescriptions than for its raw, almost melancholic confession of American elite anxiety."
It's easy to blame the ruler but none of them could carry one without a sizeable chunk of the populace (40% in the case of Americans?) that accept anything the ruler does regardless of the guardrails that are supposedly provided by government structure. Are we supposed to be satisfied with the concept that in the end Karma works and bills will come due?
“These ideas of expansion contradict the reality of demographic dynamics,” because, despite the statements of an exalted section of the political class, this might not be the rational explanation...
Israel is a very small country, so it may want a buffer zone to gain the strategic depth is missed so much during the previous wars. With no direct relation to demography.
And beside, Israel may want to get rid of a regime in a quite desperate internal political situation that has always declared its intention to destroy it as soon as possible. For purely political reasons mostly related to the age-old Shia-Sunni competition.
But of course, that doesn't mean that going to war with Iran now is the best option to achieve these goals...
Thanks Ugo. It is about feelings more than facts. Populations have feelings. Mussolini was able to use people's feelings to forge and maintain a nation,until physical reality stopped that violently.
DonaldTrump was fascinated by Mussolini,I have read.
Maybe Trump will fare better. He's already a lot older, and has a better hand of cards.
Monsieur,
J'ai beaucoup apprécié votre message dont la lecture est très instructive. J'ai souvent ri aux petites pointes ironiques qui émaillent vos propos. Bien entendu, je vois les événements décrits du même point de vue que vous.
Je pensais ces derniers jours à un ouvrage paru au siècle dernier: "Ces malades qui nous gouvernent" en me disant: Le prochain devra s'intituler : Ces malades mentaux qui nous gouvernent. Mais on devrait bien sûr proposer : "Ces chefs d'Etat atteints du Trouble de la Personnalité Narcissique" . Et quelqu'un y a pensé il y a déjà 8 ans : Ces psychopathes qui nous gouvernent.
Il faut que les peuples apprennent à ne plus élire des candidats atteints du NPD. Quand cela adviendra, ce sera un grand progrès pour l'humanité.
J'ai une grande admiraition pour Vaclav Havel, et j'aimais bien aussi ce président uruguayen qui ne voulait pas résider dans le palais présidentiel, et utilisait sa voiture "classe moyenne".
Bonnes salutations.
Your primary assumption regarding Israel running this show is incorrect. DJT and his inner circle seek to use wars to deflect the Epstein case and the declining economic well-being of the vast majority of Americans. Inflation and stagnation of real (chain-linked) wages are hammering the majority of Americans. They also seek to cancel midterm elections, declaring a national emergency. Venezuela and Cuba are additional distractions. Israel depends on US largess and support. They cooperate and follow the lead of the current administration.
I've made similar arguments about Israel. If it didn't invade Gaza, if it used 10/7 as an attack to get more money into Israel to help the Palestinians. If it did more to improve their life, to give them full citizenship, they could get a Greater Israel. Instead, they've taken on the whole Middle East. In going for everything they'll end up with nothing.
Much of the M.E. is strongly against theocracies and jihadism. Note that few countries accept(ed) refugees from Palestine. Also note that ~20% of Israelis are Muslim and choose to live there because they have a far better life than elsewhere. Israel is not seeking to take over the M.E. It has been attacked by many Arab countries since 1947, and seeks to end that. They have support from some M.E countries now. The right wingers need to be stopped, and Netanyahu needs to go. Then stability might be possible.
In the past couple of years I've heard that often from Israelis "Netanyahu will be shown the door as soon as we finish eliminating Hamas and Iran." Netanyahu will indeed be shown the door. But every dual-national Israeli will have already left, never to come back. Just my opinion, Israel committed suicide the day the IDF entered Gaza.
Hamas committed suicide the day they attacked civilians en masse. Don't bet against the sharpest fighting force and intelligence network in the M.E.
The IDF will experience the highest rate of suicide in the decades ahead. There is no intelligence left in Israel. It's all been marginalized. I get where you're coming from. I just believe those days are long gone. Iran wasn't preventing Israel from prospering. Nor was Hamas. Ultimately, small countries that over-play their expansionist plans with larger countries get nothing.
Iran just attacked 5 neighboring Arab countries. See what they do!
https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027696194642968626?s=20
I predicted that in a video two days ago. https://youtu.be/lfY28KpqpU0 There is nothing new here in Iranian strategy. The only difference is they aren't giving advance warning to those who support the U.S./Israeli attacks.
Thanks again Ugo; mad wars are not that unusual.
Whether or not Trump is in early dementia, (seems fairly likely he could be), there are some pretty despererate policies close to the President which are being acted on. And we even got served up with the 'civilisation at stake' trope by our PM in the UK this last year.
See https://bit.ly/3My8tfm
Warwick Powell:
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference on 14 February 2026 and delivered a speech that will be remembered less for its policy prescriptions than for its raw, almost melancholic confession of American elite anxiety."
It's easy to blame the ruler but none of them could carry one without a sizeable chunk of the populace (40% in the case of Americans?) that accept anything the ruler does regardless of the guardrails that are supposedly provided by government structure. Are we supposed to be satisfied with the concept that in the end Karma works and bills will come due?
“These ideas of expansion contradict the reality of demographic dynamics,” because, despite the statements of an exalted section of the political class, this might not be the rational explanation...
Israel is a very small country, so it may want a buffer zone to gain the strategic depth is missed so much during the previous wars. With no direct relation to demography.
And beside, Israel may want to get rid of a regime in a quite desperate internal political situation that has always declared its intention to destroy it as soon as possible. For purely political reasons mostly related to the age-old Shia-Sunni competition.
But of course, that doesn't mean that going to war with Iran now is the best option to achieve these goals...
Thanks Ugo. It is about feelings more than facts. Populations have feelings. Mussolini was able to use people's feelings to forge and maintain a nation,until physical reality stopped that violently.
DonaldTrump was fascinated by Mussolini,I have read.
Maybe Trump will fare better. He's already a lot older, and has a better hand of cards.