Ihe invasion of Ukraine by Russia marks the end of the post-Cold War period and opens the great confrontation between authoritarian empires and democracies. While the start of the confrontation was expected between China and the United States around Taiwan, it took place in Europe, on the front line both strategically, with the return of high-intensity warfare and the threat nuclear, than on the economic level. France and Europe are not yet at war but are no longer at peace. They are confronted with an existential threat to their security, which they wanted to believe, since the fall of the Soviet Union, belonged to a bygone past. Like 1918 and unlike 1945, 1989 was a failed peace, the democracies having given the pri…
AIRBUS – AFP
