The Human Archipelago / L'Archipel humain

  LES NOUVELLES - 2026 JUNE (56) * * * (Affichages initialement faits sur Linked In et publiés ici ensuite, en date du dimanche 14 juin 2026.) *** Russia and China, despite their growing alignment with each other, and also with Iran, are still vying for influence in their immediate neighborhood, in North Korea, as shown in this interesting and revealing article in The Economist, but also in Afghanistan, in Mongolia, and among the eight ex-Soviet republics that are found across the mountainous South Caucasus area and the immensity of Central Asia.  Eurasian relations are not smooth and may be bumpy at times. The Eurasian Trilateral that is created by the political convergence of three major countries (Russia, China and Iran) will probably succeed in pushing the ineptly-led United States of Trumpia out of the Asiatic continent, but it doesn't mean the end of human history, Fukuyama-style. Life will go on.  Will the United Arab Emirates be permitted to stay inside the BRICS...

  (First published earlier today, on Linked In.) This article, below, published by the South China Morning Post, gave an impressive depiction of the techniques of dealing with the threats of carriers, that seemed to be envisioned by Beijing in the case of a military conflict with the United States. The article implied that even the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, do not think much of the chances of survival of those ships in an actual war against the Chinese military forces. Hegseth was possibly thinking about groups of Chinese submarines creeping up to all the carriers operated by the US Navy, in a planned and coordinated fashion, with the aim of removing them them quickly from the oceanic Go board, in one, fast, and fatal blow. That being said, this article is probably a piece of information warfare, designed to scare away the ships of the US Navy from the Asiatic coastline as much as possible. The model is visibly inspired by the recent and continuing airwar between Iran an...

  LES NOUVELLES - 2026 JUNE (55) * * * (Affichages initialement faits sur Linked In et publiés ici ensuite, en date du dimanche 7 juin 2026.) *** L'orientation que semble vouloir prendre le gouvernement fédéral canadien, dans le dossier de l'acquisition de chasseurs F-35, de fabrication américaine, est la bonne. Mieux vaut, en effet, favoriser l'acquisition de chasseurs Gripen, de conception suédoise. Il pourrait être préférable d'attendre la tenue des élections de mi-mandat aux États-Unis pour faire des annonces à ce niveau, les réactions de l'administration trumpienne, dans l'état actuel des choses, pouvant être qualifiées d'imprévisibles, voire d'incohérentes, et faisant même parfois preuve d'un certain niveau d'émotivité. Par ailleurs, s'il advenait qu'Ottawa achète davantage de Gripen que de F-35, il pourrait être souhaitable que le nombre final qui serait retenu pour ces derniers se situe quelque part entre une quinzaine et une tre...