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Brennus Letter N°. 5: Orechnik missile – Russia’s new deterrent has a pre-nuclear component
The development of hypersonic technology was one of Russia’s responses to the West’s aggressive expansion. Look at the impact of the Kinjal in Ukraine in March 2022 (to such an extent that the Ukrainians, genuinely frightened by the Russian strikes, asked to negotiate). And now the Orechnik. For the moment, both strikes have only targeted Ukrainian territory. But the message has clearly been received loud and clear in Washington and at the Pentagon: the Russians have a weapon that has no equivalent on the American side.
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Brennus Letter N°4: Venezuela – the risky strategy of « Make America FIRST again »
After a year in office, Donald Trump must acknowledge the profound decline of the United States. He believed that Russia would be only too happy to seize the opportunity for his mediation, but he is now faced with the reality that Russia has no need for the United States to negotiate peace in Ukraine. Donald Trump thought he could impose his will on China by raising customs duties, but Beijing has won the ‘customs war’. Worse still, China is winning the industrial competition.
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Brennus Letter N°. 3: Why the end of the war in Ukraine will intensify the “cold civil war” in the United States
To tell the truth, we see this affair less as proof of corruption in Brussels than as a sign that ‘Brussels’ has entered the terminal crisis of Western governance, with judges taking power. In the governance system that preceded ‘New Public Management’, that complicated system invented by Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister (1997-2007), who would have been surprised to see the College of Bruges, a breeding ground for European civil servants, awarded a training programme for apprentice diplomats in Europe? But we live in a world where civil servants are appointed to organise a staged competition so that the…
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Brennus Letter N°. 2: Friedrich Merz, figurehead of the new German militarism
At the end of October, the popularity rating of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) had fallen to 24%. The coalition partner, the SPD, had gained one point compared to the previous week (15%), leaving little room for manoeuvre for the coalition: when Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz’s predecessor, was elected Chancellor in 2021, his party, the Social Democrats, had 25% of the vote. A series of unresolved domestic political issues, particularly in the areas of social policy (migration, financing of social security and pension systems), energy policy and economic issues, are causing Friedrich Merz’s popularity ratings to fall steadily.…
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Brennus Letter N°. 1: Bye-Bye Mackinder: Donald Trump and the crisis of American power
A series of clashes are taking place along what could be called the ‘Mackinder line’. We recall that at the beginning of the 20th century, British geopolitician Mackinder believed that maritime powers should prevent, at all costs, the expansion of a Eurasian continental power – in fact, Russia. Contentons-nous de constater que la diagonale des BRICS, dont nous parlions un peu plus haut, a pour conséquence, non seulement, la fin de l’encerclement de l’Eurasie par les puissances anglo-saxonnes mais, potentiellement, la marginalisation du monde anglo-saxon, rejeté aux marges des deux côtés de l’axe des BRICS, au nord-ouest (Amérique du Nord-Grande-Bretagne)…
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New publication: Decolonise Europe!
Edouard Husson, Français d’origine, et Ulrike Reisner, Autrichienne d’origine, jettent dans cet ouvrage un regard particulier sur l’Allemagne après les élections fédérales de 2025. Ils retracent la division politique de l’Allemagne, dont les racines remontent à loin. Les auteurs tracent les grandes lignes de la politique étrangère et économique de l’Allemagne et montrent à titre d’exemple les erreurs commises au cours des dernières décennies. L’apparent découragement géopolitique dont la politique allemande est accusée depuis longtemps en Europe fait l’objet d’un bilan critique dans l’évaluation de la politique d’alliance euro-atlantique depuis la fin de la guerre froide. Les auteurs tentent de…
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New book: One hundred days that changed the world
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, we have seen Euro-Atlantic unilateralism challenged by the rest of the world. The conflict in Gaza has further accentuated this trend. Some say that a new Cold War has begun. Others fear an uncontrollable escalation between ‘the West’ and ‘the Global South’. If you want to understand what is happening, come aboard with us. The ‘Hundred Days That Changed the World’ recounts the weeks leading up to the American elections, which were among the most dramatic in contemporary history.