Dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, le commentateur militaire William S. Lind s’\u00e9tait signal\u00e9 par des vues extr\u00eamement originales et int\u00e9ressantes sur les \u00e9v\u00e9nements politico-militaires, mais aussi culturels et soci\u00e9taux. Lind \u00e9tait (et reste) l’un des chefs de file de la th\u00e9orie de la \u00ab\u00a0guerre de la 4\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration\u00a0\u00bb (G4G), qui caract\u00e9rise notre \u00e9poque où les entit\u00e9s principielles, États et autres, se d\u00e9litent et se trouvent confront\u00e9es \u00e0 des attaques d\u00e9structurantes de dynamiques et de groupes transnationaux. La G4G est une th\u00e9orie qu’on peut (qu’on doit, \u00e0 notre sens) \u00e9largir \u00e0 de nombreux domaines hors des seuls champs militaire et politique, mais qui est de toutes les fa\u00e7ons la mieux adapt\u00e9e aux caract\u00e8res de l’affrontement entre Syst\u00e8me et antiSyst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A la fin des ann\u00e9es 2000, William S. Lind disparut de la chronique des r\u00e9seaux, avant de reparaître r\u00e9cemment avec une chronique r\u00e9guli\u00e8re dans The American Conservative<\/em>. Celle qu’il donne ce 11 f\u00e9vrier 2014<\/a> est particuli\u00e8rement int\u00e9ressante. C’est un soutien inconditionnel donn\u00e9 \u00e0 Poutine et \u00e0 la Russie, comme seule force repr\u00e9sentant r\u00e9ellement le courant conservateur dans les relations internationales. Pour nous, il s’agit sans aucun doute, derri\u00e8re le qualificatif de \u00ab\u00a0conservateur\u00a0\u00bb, d’une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux forces principielles et structurantes qui caract\u00e9risent, bon an mal an, la politique russe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ce n’est pas le premier chroniqueur US \u00e0 soutenir la Russie. On a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu le cas de Patrick Buchanan (le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2013<\/a>). Il est \u00e9galement manifeste qu’un libertarien comme Justin Raimondo est int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par l’approche de Poutine et de la Russie, et sans doute reviendra-t-il sur le sujet puisqu’il signale ce texte de Lind dans sa chronique du 12 f\u00e9vrier 2014<\/a> avant de passer \u00e0 un sujet qui le sollicite de toute urgence (la mauvaise situation d’Antiwar.com<\/em> et sa difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 trouver le financement n\u00e9cessaire)… Quelques extraits du texte de Lind :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «An unfortunate legacy of the Cold War is the negative attitude some American conservatives yet harbor toward Russia. Conditioned for decades to see Russia and the Soviet Union as synonymous, they still view post-communist Russia as a threat. They forget that Tsarist Russia was the most conservative great power, a bastion of Christian monarchy loathed by revolutionaries, Jacobins, and democrats. Joseph de Maistre was not alone among 19th-century conservatives in finding refuge and hope in Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia is emerging once more as the leading conservative power. As we witnessed in Russia’s rescue of President Obama from the corner into which he had painted himself on Syria, the Kremlin is today, as the New York Times reports, \u00ab\u00a0Establishing Russia’s role in world affairs not based on the dated Cold War paradigm but rather on its different outlook, which favors state sovereignty and status quo stability over the spread of Western-style democracy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »In his own Times op-ed on Syria, Putin wrote, \u00ab\u00a0It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it.\u00a0\u00bb Sen. Robert A. Taft and Russell Kirk also doubted it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Moscow appears to understand better than Washington that the driving foreign-policy requirement of the 21st century is the preservation of the state in the face of Fourth Generation war waged by non-state entities, such as those fighting on the rebels’ side in Syria. Russia has rightly upbraided Washington for destroying states, including Iraq and Libya.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n »The world has turned upside down. America, condemning and even attacking other countries to push \u00ab\u00a0democracy\u00a0\u00bb and Jacobinical definitions of human rights, is becoming the leader of the international Left. Russia is reasserting her historic role as leader of the international Right. This is a reversal of historic importance. American foreign policy should be based on America’s interests, not on affinity for any foreign power. But putting America first does not require being hostile to Russia or anyone else. On the contrary: American conservatives should welcome the resurgence of a conservative Russia.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n … Outre de saluer la pr\u00e9sence de Joseph de Maistre dans le texte, on doit aussi lire les commentaires. Ils sont tranch\u00e9s entre partisans et adversaires radicaux de l’id\u00e9e de Lind. Pour un certain nombre de conservateurs US, le supr\u00e9matisme des USA et ses effets durant la Guerre froide emp\u00eachent absolument de consid\u00e9rer la Russie sur sa v\u00e9ritable valeur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mis en ligne le 12 f\u00e9vrier 2014 \u00e0 16H21<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William S. Lind soutient Poutine Dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, le commentateur militaire William S. Lind s’\u00e9tait signal\u00e9 par des vues extr\u00eamement originales et int\u00e9ressantes sur les \u00e9v\u00e9nements politico-militaires, mais aussi culturels et soci\u00e9taux. 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