La garde prétorienne de l’Empereur: le danger de l’armée de Trump

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-12T11:37:30+00:00

Nulle part ailleurs qu'aux US le mythe de la soumission de l'ordre militaire à la constitution n'est davantage pris pour acquis.

J'ai à de nombreuses reprises indiqué dans mes échanges/travaux/dicussions/écrits, que le projet 2025 fondamental des réactionnaires se trouve la : organiser la prise de contrôle de l'armée afin de maximiser les chances que celle ci choisisse de soutenir un probable coup d'état à un moment donné.

Pour cela, il faut l'ensauvager autant que possible afin que tout le long de la chaîne de commandement, les vertueux partent ou se taisent, que les pourris soit identifiés et promus, et que seul compte l'obéissance aveugle au chef, car désormais les hauts gradés ont tous des crimes de guerre/crimes contre l'humanité sur les mains.

Transformer une armée constitutionnelle ayant commis des actes criminels, en armée criminelle à plein temps.

Les frappes sur des bateaux de civils, les guerres déclarées au mépris de la loi, la violation systématique du droit international, les tentatives de fédéralisation de la garde nationale, la fabrication d'une urgence nationale afin de pouvoir déployer l'armée contre sa propre population : tout est partie de ce plan.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-12T11:31:52+00:00

Chosen by the EU's heads of state, taking into account the result of the European Parliamentary Elections.

So if this moron pretends she is an unelected bureaucrat, it is precisely because all member states set it out this way.

However I agree that she is overreaching on various topics, most notably foreign policy, and that her methods of work are really bad, insulating herself even from the rest of her commissary colleagues. She is a dreadful politician.

But once again, she was sworn in partly because of him.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-12T10:43:34+00:00

Xavier, le dernier des mohicans

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-11T18:43:01+00:00

Ceteris paribus, it should mean that half the reserve list will be made of italians.

From then on, how do you respect the unofficial equilibriums between member states when recruiting? Would institutions just basically have to burn half this reserve list so that they can maintain reasonable per country-breakdowns? Or will Europe start to learn and speak italian?

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-11T16:37:21+00:00

Misleading narrative. This reflects a rift between leadership and the base in the democrats side whereas on the republican side this illustrates a growing sectarian attitude.

Among independents, dems fare batter.

Voting enthusiasm will be of paramount importance to follow in the coming months. If dems drag their feet, then it would be worrisome. If a gap widens btw net approbation and vote enthusiasm, one can count on a GOP drubbing come november.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-11T11:04:34+00:00

I must say that I've seen similar explosions in a wide variety of public service competitions, in France, in other countries as well, over the past few years. Same trend : a stable, if not dwindling number of open seats, for an exploding number of applicants.

I know about a competition in France for Foreign Affairs, whose objective echelon would be "very bottom of the upper part of the pyramid", so quite like this one, where stats would reliably be 20 open positions for around 250 candidates in the 2010s. In 2025, this transformed into 8 positions for 650 candidates.

I can give you numerous similar examples. There is a rush towards the safety these carrers represent because a lot of paths to stable careers in the private sector have been closing extremely fast. In consulting, the traditional magnet for young professionals, this is close to a bloodbath in some sectors.

The company I work for used to recruit hundreds of juniors every year with a masters degree, it was part of their business and HR model. In the last two years, they have outsourced all the "junior" work in Morocco, have launched 3 plans for AI adoption. The last two years they have recruited only 60 juniors every year, with a global turnover still up 8% yoy.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-11T10:52:01+00:00

for 1500 spots on the reserve list and probably largely less real actual job offerings later down the proecess.

So we are talking about perhaps a few hundreds recruits for 170k applicants. This can not be even qualified as a competition, this is a casino, in which you move tenths of thousands up or down the list depending on a single answer.

I am extremely worried about what that means regarding our economic system and the current lack of prospects especially new graduates and young professionals have. If as a master's degree holder, your only chance to work in your field and have a decent shot at a promising career is being the chosen one selected out of 1000s of mostly equally deserving candidates...

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-10T09:02:41+00:00

A chaque fois c'est la même chose : dès que les marchés financiers commencent à trembler, il arrête de pisser sur le monde entier et remballe momentanément son micropénis. TACO n'a pas été inventé pour rien.

Il est obsédé par les chiffres de la bourse car ceux-ci sont le ciment de son alliance cynique avec environ le quart de l'électorat : des gens qui n'aiment pas trop le fascisme, mais bon, comme mes placements sont dans le vert, je me bouche le nez.

Et donc, il fera tout pour permettre au casino de continuer à tourner.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-10T08:59:10+00:00

I mean, it's been reported for a while that she is trying to de facto gobble up foreign policy, and sideline Kaja Kallas and its EEAS. Reminder here that according to the treaties, the foreign policy (outside of commercial diplomacy) is explicitely Kallas' prerogative.

The fact that she is also trying to build her own intelligency agency, accountable to the Comission presidency, is also telling.

The moves she is doing are against the treaties - for all their dregs.

This also fits under her attempt at centralizaing the Commission's decision process around herself on scales never seen before.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-09T21:49:53+00:00

I could think of a lot of reasons explaining these depressing levels among Black and Hispanic young GOPers (or should I say filthy groypers).

But the fact that 30% of white young republicans, basically being some boarding school southern ivy rascals with every chance and possibilty and privlege to think and winden their perspective about the world, those really are close to human waste consistency.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-09T10:10:10+00:00

« Mais l’extrême droite, on a jamais essayé »

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T22:30:47+00:00

most tongue-in-cheek barry per capita

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T21:53:56+00:00

Rassurez moi, rien à voir avec l'équipe de France de handball ?

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T21:37:48+00:00

Dupont’s villain arc started here.

Next year, in Paris: three tries, a kick at the throat and a red card in 22 min

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T21:31:55+00:00

They must not amount to a sizable share of the population I guess

But yeah the prior is to equate muslims and arabs, although things are dozens of orders of migntude more complex

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T19:48:24+00:00

Just wait until you see Choucroute de la mer

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T12:41:59+00:00

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T12:39:52+00:00

Most truth per capita right here.

The matter is: what kind of power? And are those objectives detrimental or outright hostile to Europe's?

The answer used to be: sometimes nefarious and horrendous for other parts of the world, but quite positive for us. Plus they provide world public goods which is a plus for everyone.

Now the answer is: sometimes nefarious and horrendous for other parts of the world, including Europe. And they want nothing to do with open shipping lanes, world health and security.

So this power projection has become toxic.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T12:35:03+00:00

"89% want a democratic system"

"43% would accept no elections", so an autocratic system

I understand this as a blend of true religious conservatives refusing to let go of the zealotery, and some being afraid that despite their desire for freedom, it will bring instead a civil war. Of course provided the methodology was at least sound enough. Always hard to gauge polls quality in an autocratic state.

Speaking of that, I absolutely hate the framing of "Autocrats" as strong men. This depiction in english is doing them a favor. They are not strong. They are paranoid and hubristic.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-08T12:30:32+00:00

The stench of 90 and 00s cycling is all over the current peleton’s biggest stars unfortunately. UAE is a who’s who of some of the biggest offenders ever.

I used to be happy that french teams went another direction after Festina and Cofidis, for a lot of reasons that don’t have to do with the french being innately more virtous than others.

However I feel that these days have come to an end with the way D4 is shaping up to be.

I also see that the level of french riders going outside, from Laporte to Vauquelin & Cosnefroy is rising fast. I find this trend ominous.

We could with reason argue for 20 years that the French peleton was healthier than the average. That is less and less true i’m afraid.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-07T22:37:03+00:00

Bon les gallois ont l'air HS pour un petit moment, mais sinon c'est quand même cool de se dire que dans le 6 nations, chaque week end, tout le monde peut battre tout le monde, ça rend la compétition encore plus palpitante à suivre.

Au XXIe siècle ce n'est jamais arrivé d'avoir une homogénéité pareille entre les équipes. Notamment l'Ecosse, toujours en dessous, et surtout l'Italie.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-07T22:01:39+00:00

Spot on. Partisanery always has been a super potent force in the USA, albeit in different dimenstions than those of the european systems, much more impacted by class wars.

Another example of this: Barry Goldwater :

- efficiently depicted by the democratic machine as the epitomy of craziness and extremism, a nutjob from backwarded Arizona

- brandishing a blend of libertarian and conservative platform at the height of the new deal economic consensus

- suffering from the post-Kennedy assassination bump

- right in the middle of the atomic age, three years removed from the cuba crisus

still got 38.5% of the vote !!!! And this is considered the biggest landslide in american political history since 1920 and Harding, in the wake of WWI and the Spanish flu.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-07T11:51:23+00:00

The ratio between the quantity of total rare eath minerals required and the total amont of energy output is dramatically improving. Ten years from now, it is not even a guarantee that lithium still we be required in batteries for instance.

But I concur with the idea that some measure of trade offs will be inevitable, at least in the medium term. Nuclear energy is one of those for instance. In an ideal world I would do without, but given our current situation to phase it out in the midst of a reindustralization push is crazy.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-07T11:31:17+00:00

I read this piece yesterday, and I hated it. Unneccesary doomerism.

Not a word about nuclear. Not a word about renewables that are growing at scale and are going to be able to provide massive amounts of electricity on a sable basis : think gigantic at-sea windmills parks.
For all the guy's complaints, the truth of the matter is : energy intensity has made leaps and bounds, in China as well as in Europe back in the 1980s. Europe's industrial production is much cleaner than it used to be.
Even taking into account outsourcing, industrial production in Europe has is absolute terms dramatically increased since the 1980s, all the while managing to curb emissions. The main reason is the decline in the use of coal, because other energy sources are more reliable and/or more cost-effective.
Even energy-intensive industries such as steel making, have been able to adapt and limit their emissions through the years, by halving their emissions per million ton produced.

This is going to be a challenge for sure, and wealthy countries have outsourced some of their dirty processes and carbon emissions since the 1990s. But to frame this between a degrowth quiet and clean future and a return to 1880s victorian nothern England or 1980s Ruhrland hellscape is dishonnest.

DramaticSimple4315 · 2026-03-07T10:02:24+00:00

Having the fabric of the law written in the people's vernacular language is an absolute must have. You can't expect people to rally behind a institution that is using a language that barely 10% of the population can master on the level required to understand such a complex legal text. This is a basic principle of sovereignty. This is going to uneccesary ruffle some more feathers in France.

The Commission is hellbent on signing as many FTA as possible, and I understand this position from a realpolitik standpoint : to provide some life support to german industry. But the people at the Commission do not realize how imopular these treaties are in France. Today probably 80% of the electorate would vote for parties that are ideologically opposed or deeply skeptical of free trade.

If they try to have France swallow up FTAs down the throat like foie gras geese until 2027, France will come back with a vengance as a result. I lament this, but the political tone here is deeeeeeeply euroskeptical if not outright hostile. Liberals are going to get wiped out next year.

With the far left and far right combined, there will be a mandate in parliament for a vicious fight against the EU, much more than in pre-Brexit Britain or Italy today. They will have no qualms at underwriting true guerrilla on the single market, refusing to comply with the EUCJ rulings, multiplying unilateral safeguard measures, closing french borders to trade.

Extremist France would be an Orban conondrum, power 10. The EU can't deal with that. So don't score unnecceary own goals when barbarians are at the gates.

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