{"id":70018,"date":"2008-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/04\/les-special-relationships-jusqua-la-lie\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:00:00","slug":"les-special-relationships-jusqua-la-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/04\/les-special-relationships-jusqua-la-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Les \u201csp\u00e9cial relationships<\/em>\u201d jusqu’\u00e0 la lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

D’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, l’un credo<\/em> favori du monde politique fran\u00e7ais, pr\u00e9sident en t\u00eate, des commentateurs, des analystes, des journalistes qui r\u00e9fl\u00e9chissent, des intellectuels qui font profession de r\u00e9alisme, c’est la vertu d’excellence du mod\u00e8le britannique. Ce th\u00e8me, cet automatisme de la pens\u00e9e devrait-on dire, continue sans coup f\u00e9rir \u00e0 marquer de couleurs imp\u00e9ratives la plupart des interventions \u00e0 pr\u00e9tention de philosophie \u00e9conomique ou approchante, voire de grande politique et de grande strat\u00e9gie (notamment en faveur de relations resserr\u00e9es avec les USA). Le Royaume-Uni continue \u00e0 \u00eatre la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, le phare, la bou\u00e9e de sauvetage, l’argument central de l’accusation anti-fran\u00e7aise si propre au discours habituel des salons parisiens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPersonne ne semble s’apercevoir que le mod\u00e8le britannique est en train de s’effondrer \u00e0 un rythme soutenu et \u00e0 l’image de son grand fr\u00e8re dont il est le reflet absolument fid\u00e8le. En ce sens, l’aveuglement fran\u00e7ais (\u00e0 applaudir le mod\u00e8le britannique) r\u00e9pond \u00e0 l’ent\u00eatement britannique (\u00e0 se f\u00e9liciter du mod\u00e8le britannique).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl y a finalement une sorte de fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 \u00e9mouvante dans la fa\u00e7on dont le Royaume-Uni suit avec l’ent\u00eatement et l’alacrit\u00e9 bien connu de la race la voie trac\u00e9e par les USA, les sp\u00e9cial relationships<\/em> inutiles, catastrophiques, d\u00e9structurantes, poursuivies jusqu’au terme, surtout sans rien changer, sans les mettre en question une seconde, sans rien du tout. C’est ce que rel\u00e8ve implicitement, sans ironie particuli\u00e8re ni le moindre sentiment critique pour quelque acteur path\u00e9tique que ce soit de cette pi\u00e8ce, l’International Herald Tribune<\/em> du 3 juillet<\/a>, sous le titre: \u00abBritish economy falling into American-style slump<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAinsi les Britanniques suivront-ils les Am\u00e9ricains jusqu’\u00e0 la lie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abA housing market in shambles, inflation at the highest level in years and signs that the economy is headed for, or already in, recession. Sound familiar? The British economy, like its counterpart across the Atlantic, has fallen on hard times, and in many ways the experience appears to be mirroring that in the United States. Indeed, the run last September on a British mortgage lender, Northern Rock, was one of the events that helped to embed the terms credit crisis firmly into the global consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbA recession is more likely than not by the end of the year, Peter Newland, who covers the British economy for Lehman Brothers in London, said Thursday, summarizing a recent string of dismal economic data that have led economists to revise their growth forecasts downward. Activity seems to be declining across the economy, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe FTSE 100, the benchmark London stock index, has fallen about 19 percent from the high of 6,732.4 that it hit in June 2007 – just short of the 20 percent decline that is commonly said to define a bear market. It gained 50.3 points, or 0.93 percent, to close at 5,476.9 on Thursday. Consumer confidence is the lowest since 1990, as oil prices drive toward $150 a barrel and unemployment has risen for the past four months.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn a written statement to a parliamentary committee Wednesday, Charlie Bean, deputy governor of the central bank, called the current situation the most challenging set of circumstances since at least the early 1990s and possibly earlier.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe main force dragging down the British economy is the collapse of the once red-hot housing market, which enriched many Britons as long as credit flowed nearly as cheaply as in the United States.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’actuelle aggravation de la situation \u00e9conomique au Royaume-Uni, directement inspir\u00e9e par la situation am\u00e9ricaniste, ach\u00e8ve le cycle entrepris par Thatcher et acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 par Tony Blair dans l’apr\u00e8s-Guerre froide, malgr\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode d’h\u00e9sitation sur l’orientation strat\u00e9gique, avec les conservateurs apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Thatcher, de 1990 \u00e0 1997, et qui s’est marqu\u00e9 par l’engagement au Kosovo, en Irak et en Afghanistan, la d\u00e9nationalisation et la d\u00e9sindustrialisation du Royaume-Uni, l’am\u00e9ricanisation de son industrie de d\u00e9fense (BAE), les choix strat\u00e9giques et d’\u00e9quipements US (JSF) et ainsi de suite. Le Royaume-Uni se trouve aujourd’hui devant le constat du d\u00e9sastre engendr\u00e9 par cette orientation strat\u00e9gique, sans alternative ni m\u00eame l’esprit de songer \u00e0 rechercher une alternative. (Cette recherche semble relever du sacril\u00e8ge et engendre l’excommunication.) L’attitude et la position de Gordon Brown, qui dirige le gouvernement travailliste le plus impopulaire<\/a> de toute l’histoire du Royaume-Uni, sont \u00e0 cette mesure: incertaines, h\u00e9sitantes, presque paralys\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSolide argumentaire pour les special relationships<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 4 juillet 2008 \u00e0 13H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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