Hummm, j’approuve le fond de cet article que je trouve intéressant mais l’auteur a oublié de préciser (ou alors je ne l’ai pas vu) que son article est en fait une traduction de la rubrique de Paul Mason pour The Guardian.
Lien : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/06/the-germans-are-making-contingency-plans-for-the-collapse-of-europe-lets-hope-we-are-too
D’ailleurs la fin de l’article a été curieusement raccourcit par cette traduction, il manque tout un paragraphe, je me permet de le reproduire ici (sans le traduire, dsl pour les non-anglophones)
If the Germans are making contingency plans for the collapse of
Europe and the breakup of the global order then, presumably, someone at
the UK’s Defence Academy in Shrivenham is doing the same. It would be
better, though, if politicians started engaging the British electorate
in a sober and non-partisan appraisal of the problem we face.
Putin’s Russia is waging hybrid warfare against western democracies ;
not just through cyber-attacks or the placing of millions of pounds
worth of ads for fake news on Facebook. It is also funding rightwing
populist parties and using media influence to revel in the sleaze,
corruption and sclerosis in European democracies. In turn, there is
a tendency among centrist politicians to say that all opposition to the
status quo – most recently in the Catalan referendum – is
Kremlin-inspired.
The assumption behind the UK’s repeated promise of security
cooperation with Europe after Brexit is that the core democracies –
Germany, France, Italy and Spain – will remain committed to Nato,
democracy and the rule of law. And that a reformed and revitalised
Europe will deliver enough jobs and growth to sap the energy of the
nationalist and xenophobic right. But it would also be wise for
politicians to begin admitting that these things are no longer certain.
If we want order, we have to create it – through engagement,
multilateralism, by accommodating what we can of the demands of rising
powers and through the promotion of resilient democratic institutions.
If we fail to achieve order, we must deal with disorder when the US is
no longer a reliable ally, nor even a stable democracy.
Britain’s new defence secretary should have a long look at the leaked
German document. It will make sober reading alongside the defence
spending cuts he is being told to make.