Hier, Vladimir Poutine a fait un discours de combat, parlant d’une relance de la course aux armements et accusant l’Occident d’\u00eatre la cause de cette situation. Il a cit\u00e9 l’expansion de l’OTAN, le d\u00e9veloppement du r\u00e9seau anti-missiles US (BMDE), et a ainsi justifi\u00e9 les contre-mesures de r\u00e9armement de la Russie. Poutine parlait<\/a> devant le Conseil d’Etat<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe speech was broadcast live on Russian television. Mr Putin was addressing the State Council, an influential gathering of the country’s elite, including Dmitry Medvedev, the man virtually guaranteed to be Russia’s next president. Also present was the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, Russia’s richest man, attending in his capacity as governor of Russia’s Chukotka region.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBizarrely, Mr Putin made no reference in his speech to the fact that the presidency will soon be changing hands, and spoke repeatedly of what we need to do.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe bizarrement nous para\u00eet mal choisi et devrait \u00eatre remplac\u00e9 par significativement. Parlant devant le probable futur pr\u00e9sident Medvedev, Poutine a employ\u00e9 le nous qui implique, dans son esprit, une compl\u00e8te continuit\u00e9 de la politique russe, notamment de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. C’est bien la formule qui semble de plus en plus s’imposer, avec un Poutine devenant Premier ministre moins en fonction de la volont\u00e9 du nouveau pr\u00e9sident (avec lequel l’accord \u00e9tait scell\u00e9 d\u00e8s l’origine de la candidature Medvedev) qu’en sa qualit\u00e9 de chef du parti Notre Russie qui domine l’\u00e9chiquier politique russe, et avec son pass\u00e9 de cr\u00e9ateur de la nouvelle politique russe. Comme l’explique Anne Penketh dans un commentaire pour The Independent<\/em> d’aujourd’hui<\/a> : \u00abThe Russian President laid down a marker, in case the West might think that his successor, the smiling Dmitry Medvedev, looks like a pushover when he takes over after next month’s elections. In the presence of all the gilded trappings of state, Mr Putin was committing his successor to continue the aggressive foreign policy stance that has kept his popularity ratings surging. <\/em>[…] We are talking long-term strategy here. Until 2020 in fact.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tEn bonne intellectuelle occidentale, Penketh parle assez curieusement d’une politique agressive de la part de Poutine\/de la Russie. Ayant dit cela, elle ridiculise aussit\u00f4t l’emploi de l’expression dans ce sens en mentionnant les divers \u00e9l\u00e9ments montrant que, si politique agressive il y a, elle vient \u00e9videmment de l’Occident, enferm\u00e9 dans le sch\u00e9ma brutal et aveugle de la Guerre froide inspir\u00e9 par une direction am\u00e9ricaniste, avec le clone habituel de la Commission europ\u00e9enne. La soi-disant politique agressive de Poutine est ainsi d\u00e9finie:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abMr Putin does have a point when he says that he is not starting this, but responding. Seen from Russia, the noose of Nato the Soviet-era enemy is tightening around Russian borders. What is more, Russia only revived the Cold War-era flights by strategic bombers last summer after Nato failed to halt its own flights over Russian territory, according to military experts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe is also right when he says that diplomatic conflicts smell of gas and oil….<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPar ailleurs la situation de l’OTAN est en train de s’affaiblir \u00e0 cause notamment de l’Afghanistan et de l’affaiblissement dramatique \u00e0 la fois de la position US et de l’administration Bush en fin de mandat. Cela fait que la position dure de la Russie, d\u00e9clench\u00e9e par les provocations occidentales, place ce pays en position id\u00e9ale pour marquer des points contre l’Occident. Quand on observera cette s\u00e9quence du point de vue de historique, \u00e0 partir de la domination qu’exer\u00e7ait l’Occident sur la Russie dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, on le montrera en exemple dans les cours d’histoire comme une sorte d’arch\u00e9type d’une diplomatie arrogante, born\u00e9e et aveugle. Aujourd’hui, l’Ouest en est r\u00e9duit \u00e0 g\u00e9mir \u00e0 propos de la politique russe de l’ours russe qui n’est vraiment tr\u00e8s gentil parce qu’il ne se laisse pas faire, notamment au nom des droits de l’homme et de la vertu d\u00e9mocrate. Path\u00e9tique, indeed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abBut with Nato weakened by the challenges outside its European borders, and a lame duck\u00a0\u00bb president in the White House, the escalation of rhetoric from Mr Putin albeit for electoral motives is worrying. The US has allowed its relationship with Russia to deteriorate while President George Bush thinks of his own legacy in Iraq and the Middle East. As for Britain, relations with Russia are at their lowest ebb since Cold War days because of the fallout from the Litvinenko affair.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbEven though Mr Putin delivered his final speech as president to the State Council yesterday as part of his long goodbye, he was telling the whole world, and particularly the West, that after 2 March, he will retain his influence in Russia, whatever his formal role. Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi. Or in his case, Le Tsar est mort, vive le Tsar.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 9 f\u00e9vrier 2008 \u00e0 10H49<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hier, Vladimir Poutine a fait un discours de combat, parlant d’une relance de la course aux armements et accusant l’Occident d’\u00eatre la cause de cette situation. Il a cit\u00e9 l’expansion de l’OTAN, le d\u00e9veloppement du r\u00e9seau anti-missiles US (BMDE), et a ainsi justifi\u00e9 les contre-mesures de r\u00e9armement de la Russie. 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