{"id":77949,"date":"2018-05-19T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/19\/pris-au-piege-de-leur-propre-folie\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:00:55","slug":"pris-au-piege-de-leur-propre-folie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/19\/pris-au-piege-de-leur-propre-folie\/","title":{"rendered":"Pris au pi\u00e8ge de leur propre folie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:2em\">Pris au pi\u00e8ge de leur propre folie<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Gr\u00e2ce soit rendue au valeureux-pr\u00e9sident Trump<\/strong>, le pr\u00e9sident-t\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9alit\u00e9, l&rsquo;hypomaniaque-narcissique qui, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces qualit\u00e9s indispensables pour nos temps \u00e9tranges, poursuit une politique qui non seulement a sem\u00e9 et s\u00e8me un immense d\u00e9sordre \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb, mais a lanc\u00e9 la m\u00eame entreprise (\u00ab\u00a0semer un immense d\u00e9sordre\u00a0\u00bb) au sein de l&rsquo;UE. <strong>Ainsi sont-ce les deux composants du bloc-BAO, donc du Syst\u00e8me, qui sont touch\u00e9s par le sublime d\u00e9sordre qui constitue la voie sacr\u00e9e vers l&rsquo;autodestruction<\/strong>. L&rsquo;on comprendra ais\u00e9ment, si on a l&rsquo;esprit vif et ouvert aux initiatives originales, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/le-maitre-de-toutes-les-defaites-chez-le-psy\">qu&rsquo;il faut bien<\/a> le sens th\u00e9\u00e2tral \u00e0 la sauce postmoderne de la t\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9alit\u00e9 et l&rsquo;ardent et roboratif m\u00e9pris pour quelque <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/glossairedde-verite-de-situation-verite\">v\u00e9rit\u00e9-de-situation<\/a> que ce soit de l&rsquo;hypomaniaque-narcissique pour parvenir en un temps si court \u00e0 un r\u00e9sultat si sublime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/insultes-et-guerre-ouverte-ue-trump\">Par cons\u00e9quent<\/a>, non, Trump n&rsquo;est ni un fou, ni un imposteur, ni un g\u00e9nie, il est &laquo; <em>sympt\u00f4me et d\u00e9tonateur, sinon \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9monstrateur\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> &raquo; de la volont\u00e9 d&rsquo;autodestruction du Syst\u00e8me. &laquo; <strong><em>Trump est une cons\u00e9quence, pas une cause<\/em><\/strong>&#8230; &raquo; de cette volont\u00e9 d&rsquo;autodestruction du Syst\u00e8me. Ainsi soit-il et reste-t-il.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Dans le texte de John Laughland ci-dessous, c&rsquo;est la partie de l'\u00a0\u00bbimmense d\u00e9sordre\u00a0\u00bb lanc\u00e9 par Trump au sein de l&rsquo;UE par sa d\u00e9cision de sortir du trait\u00e9 JCPOA qui est d\u00e9taill\u00e9e. Laughland, Britannique dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 de philosophie de l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 d&rsquo;Oxford, enseigne les relations internationales dans une universit\u00e9 parisienne, au c&oelig;ur de cette Europe en crise. C&rsquo;est par cons\u00e9quent un esprit anglo-saxon tremp\u00e9 dans la culture fran\u00e7aise, et donc, parce qu&rsquo;il r\u00e9unit deux p\u00f4les historiques de la culture europ\u00e9enne, <strong>parfaitement plac\u00e9 pour bien comprendre l&rsquo;essence m\u00eame de cette crise europ\u00e9enne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>En effet, son constat est que la d\u00e9cision de Trump plonge l&rsquo;Europe dans toutes ses formidables, ses folles contradictions, <strong>et donc ouvre une crise majeure au sein du Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>, \u00e0 la fois crise europ\u00e9enne comme on l&rsquo;a vu, crise transatlantique comme on le comprend ais\u00e9ment, <strong>enfin crise de la confrontation de deux crises<\/strong>, celles de \u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb <strong>d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien avanc\u00e9e par elle-m\u00eame et en elle-m\u00eame<\/strong>, et celle de l&rsquo;Europe-UE <strong>qui prend une tournure in\u00e9dite et pressante<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Laughland \u00e9num\u00e8re donc les innombrables contradictions auxquelles l&rsquo;Europe-UE est d\u00e9sormais confront\u00e9e, qui se r\u00e9sume par ce dilemme insoluble : <strong>la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de r\u00e9agir de fa\u00e7on contr\u00f4l\u00e9e <\/strong>\u00e0 la situation grotesque et insupportable o&ugrave; la place la d\u00e9cision de Trump et <strong>l&rsquo;impossibilit\u00e9 de r\u00e9agir de fa\u00e7on contr\u00f4l\u00e9e <\/strong>\u00e0 cette m\u00eame situation grotesque et insupportable. La conclusion que nous en tirons est par cons\u00e9quent que nous entrons dans une <em>terra incognita <\/em>o&ugrave; les actes contr\u00f4l\u00e9es d&rsquo;une politique que l&rsquo;on voudrait \u00e0 la fois ferme et arrangeante deviennent absolument impossibles, et donc que la <em>terra incognita <\/em>est un territoire hors de tout contr\u00f4le. <strong>C&rsquo;est d&rsquo;ailleurs dans sa nature m\u00eame<\/strong> : par d\u00e9finition, on ne peut contr\u00f4ler ce qui est inconnu&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Laughland d\u00e9taille les diverses contradictions radicales qui caract\u00e9risent l&rsquo;Europe en butte aux cons\u00e9quences catastrophiques de la d\u00e9cision de Trump. Elles sont ais\u00e9ment compr\u00e9hensibles quand on mesure ce qui <strong>\u00e0 la fois s\u00e9pare aujourd&rsquo;hui radicalement l&rsquo;UE des USA, et ce qui \u00e0 la fois lie radicalement l&rsquo;UE et les USA<\/strong>. L&rsquo;aspect de cette <em>terra incognita <\/em>le plus s\u00e9duisant est certainement les relations de l&rsquo;UE avec la Russie. Il est \u00e9vident que l&rsquo;attitude US <strong>doit pousser l&rsquo;UE \u00e0 se rapprocher de la Russie <\/strong>pour toutes les raisons du monde, alors que l&rsquo;UE, op\u00e9rant de conserve avec Washington et bien aussi fou-<em>Russiagate <\/em>que Washington (sans meneur n\u00e9cessaire, les deux avan\u00e7ant du m\u00eame pas) <strong>insulte et sanctionne la Russie <\/strong>depuis au moins quatre ans (\u00ab\u00a0coup de Kiev\u00a0\u00bb de f\u00e9vrier 2014) et m\u00eame depuis 2011-2012 (d\u00e9but de l&rsquo;affrontement en Syrie et alentour). Qu&rsquo;importe, madame Merkel \u00e9tait \u00e0 Moscou hier pour parler avec monsieur Poutine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Il faut dire que l&rsquo;Europe-UE a en face d&rsquo;elle, \u00e0 Moscou, un redoutable joueur d&rsquo;\u00e9checs, expert dans l&rsquo;art des arrangements avec vision \u00e0 long terme, et l&rsquo;art de la s\u00e9duction au moment qu&rsquo;il faut. Au lieu de l&rsquo;accueillir avec arrogance et m\u00e9pris comme a fait Trump deux semaines plus t\u00f4t, Poutine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/427156-putin-merkel-us-sanctions\/\">a accueilli Merkel hier<\/a> avec de doux et chaleureux sourires, <strong>et m\u00eame un bouquet de fleurs<\/strong>, &ndash; si bien que la s\u00e9duisante <em>Kaiserin <\/em>a d&ucirc; vraiment se sentir comme chez elle avant d&rsquo;entamer des discussions o&ugrave; de nombreux sujets auraient d&ucirc; \u00eatre abord\u00e9s mais o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on parla essentiellement de la nouvelle situation cr\u00e9\u00e9e par la d\u00e9cision de Trump :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>La fa\u00e7on dont Poutine a accueilli Merkel a peut-\u00eatre rappel\u00e9 \u00e0 la chanceli\u00e8re les pourparlers de nouvelle coalition allemande. Apr\u00e8s la finalisation de l&rsquo;accord et son \u00e9lection d\u00e9finitive au parlement \u00e0 la mi-mars, Angela Merkel a re\u00e7u des fleurs de la part des autres membres de la coalition. De m\u00eame, le pr\u00e9sident russe a \u00e9galement offert \u00e0 son invit\u00e9 un bouquet lors de sa rencontre sur le porche de sa r\u00e9sidence \u00e0 Sotchi, avant de s&rsquo;entretenir \u00e0 trois avec le Premier ministre Dmitri Medvedev, dont le remaniement minist\u00e9riel vient d&rsquo;\u00eatre achev\u00e9<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Horreur, donc ! <\/strong>Le Russe, d\u00e9j\u00e0 <strong>coupable de tout et de bien d&rsquo;autres choses encore<\/strong>, poursuivrait-il \u00e0 coups de bouquets de fleurs face \u00e0 une faible femme sa strat\u00e9gie de chercher \u00e0 s\u00e9parer les deux grands blocs de vertus r\u00e9ciproquement d\u00e9mocratiques \u00e0 l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur de la cath\u00e9drale de valeurs civilisatrices que repr\u00e9sente le bloc-BAO que l&rsquo;on ne serait pas autrement \u00e9tonn\u00e9&#8230; Impossible, diront les connaisseurs, l&rsquo;Europe est pieds et poings li\u00e9s ! Qu&rsquo;importe, dirons-nous, <strong>puisque le d\u00e9sordre est dans le fruit, et que voil\u00e0 la seule chose qui nous importe, \u00e0 nous<\/strong>. <em>Terra incognita<\/em>, vous dit-on&#8230; Que se passera-t-il \u00e0 la prochaine occasion o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on parlera des sanctions contre la Russie, absurdes en temps normal de ces temps si \u00e9tranges, et absurdes jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 \u00eatre surr\u00e9alistes dans ce temps anormal de ces temps si \u00e9tranges ? Oui, que se passera-t-il avec ce nouveau gouvernement italien, fait de deux partis populistes, eurosceptiques et partisans inconditionnels de la lev\u00e9e imm\u00e9diate de ces sanctions, alors que <strong>l&rsquo;Europe-UE effectue l&rsquo;hyper-grand \u00e9cart <\/strong>de tenter de plaire \u00e0 Moscou tout en tentant de rester coh\u00e9rent avec tout ce qu&rsquo;elle a fait et tout ce qu&rsquo;elle est ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Buvant son petit lait anglo-fran\u00e7ais, Laughland termine son analyse de l&rsquo;incoh\u00e9rence des fous pris au pi\u00e8ge de leur propre folie avec cette remarque : &laquo; <em>En d&rsquo;autres mots, ce que Trump a fait est de faire appara&icirc;tre les Europ\u00e9ens pour les fous qu&rsquo;ils sont. Dans ces circonstances o&ugrave; l&rsquo;UE a plac\u00e9 tous ses &oelig;ufs dans le m\u00eame panier que Trump vient de renverser avec une brutalit\u00e9 inou\u00efe, il lui sera impossible de se rassembler en une union bien ordonn\u00e9e. Au contraire, l&rsquo;UE est bien partie pour se d\u00e9sint\u00e9grer<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Son texte ci-dessous a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 par RT, au milieu de l&rsquo;habituel encombrement de <em>FakeNews<\/em> caract\u00e9risant ce r\u00e9seau bien connu des godillots-surveillants des flics des salons parisiens, &mdash; cela, le le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/427116-eu-sanctions-iran-trump\/\">18 mai 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>_________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">Trump made Europeans look like the fools they are<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The attacks by European leaders against US President Donald Trump are getting sharper by the day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On the day Trump announced that he was ripping up the Iran deal, and that the US would impose sanctions on European companies trading with that country, the French finance minister Bruno Le Maire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brunolemaire\/status\/994997371426746368\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that European states refused to be treated like &quot;<em>vassals<\/em>&quot; of the US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>At Aachen on 11 May, Emmanuel Macron effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/declarations\/article\/transcription-du-discours-du-president-de-la-republique-emmanuel-macron-lors-de-la-ceremonie-de-remise-du-prix-charlemagne-a-aix-la-chapelle\/\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> the US of blackmail.  On 17 May, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, <a href=\"https:\/\/tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu\/video\/donald-tusk-speaks-to-the-press-in-sofia-highlights-1ac45\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a>, &quot;<em>With friends like that (i.e. Trump), who needs enemies?<\/em>&quot; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The temperature only rose further when the French energy giant Total <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-iran-nuclear-france-total\/frances-total-to-quit-iran-gas-project-if-no-sanctions-waiver-idUKKCN1IH1XU\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>that it would pull out of a multi-billion dollar gas deal with Iran unless European diplomacy succeeds in obtaining a specific waiver from US sanctions. Other European behemoths including Allianz and Siemens have also announced either that they will wind down operations in Iran or that they will not start any new ones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>These statements show that Trump&rsquo;s decision is a slap in the face for the EU politically, economically and &ndash; perhaps above all &ndash; ideologically. Politically, because both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel made special trips to Washington to plead with Trump, to no avail whatever.  Moreover, the EU is itself a signatory to the Iran deal, which it regards as a major diplomatic triumph from which it draws credibility: its disavowal by Trump is a deep insult to the diplomatic status of the EU as such.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Economically, because of the gigantic contracts which European companies could lose. For years, following the nearly $9 billion fine imposed by the US on Paribas in 2015, European companies and banks have been terrified of engaging in any business activity likely to attract the ire of the Americans. Deals with Russia, for instance, are shunned. The effect of this latest decision could be like many Paribas situations at once.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ideologically, because the EU draws its entire legitimacy from the belief that by pooling sovereignty and by merging its states into one entity, it has advanced beyond the age when international relations were decided by force. It believes that it embodies instead a new international system based on rules and agreements, and that any other system leads to war. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this belief for European leaders; yet Donald Trump has just driven a coach and horses through it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The angry statements by European leaders might lead one to think that we are on the cusp of a major reappraisal of trans-Atlantic relations. However, the reality is that the EU and its leaders have painted themselves into a corner from which it will be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to extricate themselves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>First, the links between the EU and the US are not only very long-standing, they are also set in stone. NATO and the EU are in reality Siamese twins, two bodies born at the same time which are joined at the hip. The first European community was created with overt and covert US support in 1950 in order to militarize Western Europe and to prepare it to fight a land war against the Soviet Union; NATO acquired its integrated command structure a few months later and its Supreme Commander is always an American.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Today the two organizations are legally inseparable because the consolidated Treaty on European Union, in the form adopted at Lisbon in 2009, states that EU foreign policy &quot;<em>shall respect<\/em>&quot; the obligations of NATO member states and that it shall &quot;<em>be compatible<\/em>&quot; with NATO policy. In other words, the constitutional charter of the EU subordinates it to NATO, which the USA dominates legally and structurally. In such circumstances, European states can only liberate themselves from US hegemony, as Donald Tusk said they should, by leaving the EU.  It is obvious that they are not prepared to do that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Second, EU leaders have burned their own bridges with other potential partners, especially Russia. Angela Merkel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/427088-putin-merkel-meeting-sochi\/\" target=\"_blank\">traveled<\/a>to Russia on Friday but only a few weeks ago more than half of the EU member states expelled scores of Russian diplomats and encouraged non-EU European states like Ukraine and Montenegro to do the same, in retaliation for the poisoning in Salisbury of Sergei and Julia Skripal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>How is Mrs Merkel going to convince Mr Putin to join her in keeping Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program under control if she officially thinks that Mr Putin is guilty of secretly stockpiling and using chemical weapons for assassinations in the West ? Only a few weeks later, in mid-April, Britain and France, together with the US, attacked Syria on the basis that its army had used chemical weapons at Douma with Russian backing. If they try to turn on the charm now in Sochi or in Moscow, do they really expect the Russians can take them seriously ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Third, how can EU leaders complain about US sanctions against their companies when they themselves have applied sanctions against Russian companies causing major economic disruptions in that country? EU states have also introduced punitive sanctions against Syria since 2011, one of the biggest programs of sanctions ever, whose effect and purpose is to disrupt the activities of the Syrian state including its ability to provide public goods like health.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Britain and France, who are, with Germany, the European signatories of the Iran deal, have been pursuing regime change in Syria for half a decade. By what right do they protest now that the US administration is taking decisions whose goal is to provoke regime change in Iran?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As if these external issues were not bad enough, the EU is currently riven by internal divisions too. Donald Tusk may say &quot;<em>Europe must be united economically, politically and also militarily like never before &#8230; either we are together or we are not at all<\/em>&quot; but Europe is indeed not &quot;<em>together<\/em>&quot; at all. The Brussels commission is hounding Poland and Hungary on what are clearly internal political matters beyond the Commission&rsquo;s remit; the EU is about to lose one of its most important member states; and a new government is going to take power in Rome whose economic policies (a flat tax at 15%) will blow the eurozone&rsquo;s borrowing rules out of the water and perhaps cause Italy to leave the euro.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Italian 5-Star \/ League government also wants an end to the EU sanctions against Russia; these are voted by a unanimity which, although fragile, has held until now but which, if the new power in Rome keeps its word, will shortly collapse. In other words, what Trump has done is to make the Europeans look like the fools they are. In circumstances in which the EU has placed all its eggs in one basket, a basket which Trump has now overturned, it will be impossible for it to come together. On the contrary, it is falling apart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>John Laughland<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pris au pi\u00e8ge de leur propre folie Gr\u00e2ce soit rendue au valeureux-pr\u00e9sident Trump, le pr\u00e9sident-t\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9alit\u00e9, l&rsquo;hypomaniaque-narcissique qui, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces qualit\u00e9s indispensables pour nos temps \u00e9tranges, poursuit une politique qui non seulement a sem\u00e9 et s\u00e8me un immense d\u00e9sordre \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb, mais a lanc\u00e9 la m\u00eame entreprise (\u00ab\u00a0semer un immense d\u00e9sordre\u00a0\u00bb) au sein de l&rsquo;UE.&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3356,18301,2773,3442,13516,5444,4633,916,5646,2609],"class_list":["post-77949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-desordre","tag-europe-ue","tag-iran","tag-italie","tag-jcpoa","tag-laughland","tag-merkel","tag-poutine","tag-sanctions","tag-ue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}