International

Citizens’ resolution

(9 May 2025) (CH-S) French officers are calling for clarity on their country’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict. They are therefore calling on parliament to publish all information about the presence of French troops in Ukraine since 2022 in the Official Journal of the Republic.

This appeal has been signed by more than two dozen French generals and several hundred other members of the armed forces. Since the end of April 2025, more than 30,000 signatures from French citizens have been collected in support of the appeal.

Close the US military bases in Asia!

The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes

by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA

(2 May 2025) President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is calling on Japan and Korea to pay for stationing the US troops. Here’s a much better idea: close the bases and return the US servicemen to the US.

Why the war in Ukraine will continue

Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(25 April 2025) After Donald Trump’s peace offer to Russia caused turmoil in a warmongering Europe and raised hopes in the rest of the world, it is now stalling. The reason is simple: too many players, starting with the Ukrainians, the Europeans and the American warmongers, have an interest in the war to continue. Even if Trump and Putin were to reach an agreement and a temporary ceasefire were to be declared, they would not really end the hostilities. At least not for the time being.

Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France

by Thierry Meyssan,* France

(14 April 2025) In 2005, the French and Dutch rejected the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in referendums. But in 2007, the French and Dutch parliamentary assemblies adopted the same text, barely amended, under the name of the Lisbon Treaty. For the first time since the end of World War II, the French and Dutch ruling classes showed their sovereign contempt for their peoples.

Cooperation & conflict in the Arctic

Will BRICS become an arctic institution?

by Prof. Glenn Diesen,* Norway

(14 April 2025) Cooperation in the Arctic has traditionally been largely immune to geopolitics. Even during the great power conflicts of the Cold War, cooperation in the Arctic continued for mutually beneficial collaboration and trust-building. This era appears to have come to an end.

The myth of the “peaceful and benevolent European Union”

by Pierre Lévy,* France

(4 April 2025) We can be grateful to Donald Trump for inadvertently provoking interesting admissions: when he argued that the EU was founded to “cheat” on the US, pro-European politicians cried out in outrage, pointing out that the bloc was created under Washington’s auspices.