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Nicolas Baverez: "If vis pacem, para bellum"

2022-11-13T19:45:33.504Z


CHRONICLE - War is not only back, it is changing its nature and going beyond its limits: it is no longer the monopoly of the military but engages the nation in all its components.


The invasion of Ukraine by Russia marks a change of strategic era.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Sovietism, peace seemed certain and war impossible.

Since February 24, 2022, peace is impossible and war becomes plausible.

It takes the form of a high-intensity conflict in Ukraine, but also of a hybrid confrontation between Russia and Europe, mixing nuclear blackmail, energy and food crisis, manipulation of migratory flows, cyber attacks, disinformation, support for populist movements, destabilization of Africa and the Middle East.

War is not only back, it changes its nature and goes beyond its limits: it is no longer the monopoly of the military but engages the nation in all its components.

And France and Europe are on the front line.

Hence the “Strategic National Review”, which intends to take this new situation into account to inform the future military programming law, in…

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Source: lefigaro

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