Les Soulèvements de la Terre

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

The 511 billion barrels reported is nearly double Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves and more than ten times the North Sea’s output over the last 50 years.

By putting in place climate change adaptation measures, NATO has an opportunity to both strengthen operational resilience and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Beware of these three false solutions to climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets.

Bruits de bottes aux frontières russo-ukrainiennes en avril1, appel à la désescalade et à l’arrêt des provocations russes sur ses marches traditionnelles, perception de la menace systémique chinoise2, confrontation sino-indienne dans l’Himalaya, mise en évidence de la faiblesse européenne face aux rodomontades d’États nationalistes et autoritaires, enjeux militaires autour du « déni d’accès » russe, implication du GRU (direction générale des renseignements militaires russes) dans l’explosion d’entrepôts d’armes en Tchéquie et destinées à l’Ukraine en 2014, usage de l’hybridation alliant stratégies indirectes et usage militaire classique, insistance occidentale sur le rôle stratégique des forces terrestres3 : tout concourt à suggérer un retour des engagements militaires, sinon du spectre de la haute intensité et ... de l’ascension aux extrêmes. L’annexion de la Crimée est passée par là, tout comme la « question chinoise ».