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Relire cette brillante analyse publiée par ⁦@Grand_Continent⁩ avant la guerre pour saisir la complexité du pays et la difficulté à renverser le régime legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/30/…

Exclusive: To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters. wapo.st/4stgvps

Iran cost compared to other wars

La guerre des puces se joue désormais à Singapour et Kuala Lumpur, pas à Pékin. ByteDance vient d'installer 36 000 puces NVIDIA B200 en Malaisie via une société écran basée à Singapour nommée Aolani Cloud. Coût estimé : 2,5 milliards de dollars. Objectif : accéder aux puces les plus avancées au monde malgré les restrictions américaines à l'exportation vers la Chine. Le mécanisme est simple : les règles américaines interdisent d'exporter certaines puces vers la Chine. Elles ne l'interdisent pas vers la Malaisie ou Singapour. Une société intermédiaire dans un pays tiers achète les puces légalement. La puissance de calcul est ensuite accessible à distance depuis la Chine. Pas d'infraction formelle. Résultat identique. Ce n'est pas un cas isolé. C'est une méthode qui se généralise à toute vitesse dans toute l'Asie du Sud-Est. La Malaisie, Singapour, les Émirats arabes unis et la Thaïlande sont devenus les territoires de contournement privilégiés des groupes technologiques chinois. La guerre technologique entre les États-Unis et la Chine ne ressemble plus à un blocus. Elle ressemble à un jeu d'échecs joué sur tout le continent asiatique. Et les règles changent plus vite que les lois. Les restrictions à l'exportation américaines ne bloquent pas l'accès chinois aux puces avancées. Elles le délocalisent en Asie du Sud-Est. Singapour et la Malaisie deviennent des zones grises stratégiques que Washington devra tôt ou tard adresser. 📊 Guide gratuit sur 10 actions taïwanaises pour 2026, lien en bio.

🇫🇷 French prosecutors said Saturday they had alerted US authorities to a suspicion that tech tycoon Elon Musk had encouraged the controversy over sexualised deepfakes on X to "artificially" increase the value of his company. ➡️ u.afp.com/SLRe

Simple application de la Loi contre Fast Fashion défendue par la filière FR de prêt à porter Au passage 12 fédérations du commerce et de l’industrie ont lancé une action en justice contre Shein afin de demander réparation pour concurrence déloyale

JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@PierreCol Déployer en FR

Rappelons que, hors France, l'électricité qui alimente les datacenters est largement produite à partir d'énergies fossiles. La hausse du prix du pétrole et du gaz va impacter leur coût de fonctionnement, donc celui de l'IA. Que vont faire les acteurs de l'IA déjà déficitaires ?

NEW: Russian authorities continue efforts to temporarily deport Ukrainian children to Russia for cultural re-education, indoctrination, and forced integration into the Russian sphere of influence. Other Key Takeaways: Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom is also complicit in efforts to use summer camp programs for the indoctrination of Ukrainian children. Russian authorities are reportedly planning to resettle roughly 114,000 Russians in occupied Ukraine by 2045. Russia is already quietly manipulating the demographics of occupied Ukraine using financial incentives and work programs to draw Russians to occupied areas. The Zarnitsa 2.0 military-patriotic competition has begun its third season and is expanding its reach in occupied Ukraine. Russian occupation authorities are intensifying efforts to seize, nationalize, and redistribute properties in occupied Ukraine in accordance with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s December 2025 law. Russian occupation courts continue to weaponize dubious treason and espionage charges to levy harsh sentences against Ukrainians for perceived anti-Russian sentiments. Russia is increasingly migrating basic services to the state-controlled MAX messenger to force residents of occupied Ukraine to use the application. The Kremlin used the 12th anniversary of its illegal annexation of Crimea to highlight Russian purported investment in Crimea’s development — highlighting the role that such development projects play in Russia’s wider occupation strategy in Ukraine. Russian officials continue to highlight housing reconstruction efforts in occupied Mariupol.

🔴🧶1/8. Les élections municipales suscitent beaucoup d'émotions, de bluff, de généralités. Je me suis amusé à décortiquer les résultats de LFI dans des centaines de bureaux de vote. Surprenant... ➡️N'hésitez pas à lire le fil et à partager l'article. decideurs-magazine.com/politique-soci…

"When a President describes sinking ships as 'fun,' when allies are blindsided and friends humiliated, when the reasons for war shift with the news cycle and the global economy buckles—the question is no longer whether the destruction is intended or careless. The question is whether anyone, anywhere, still believes that American power comes with a sense of responsibility attached," writes Bobby Ghosh time.com/article/2026/0…

@AndyMasley The same work with electricity consumption comparing AI data center to other industries would be relevant too

This is a work in progress but I made a visual that compares how much water AI and data centers use in total to other industries. Relies on a lot of botecs I justify in the methodology. andymasley.com/visuals/water/

⚡️ European special services are registering an increase in cases of civilians being recruited by russian intelligence for espionage and sabotage.

🇫🇷 Kpler, start-up française fondée en 2014 par deux ingénieurs à Paris, est devenue incontournable dans le tracking mondial des flux de pétrole et matières premières. 📊 Elle agrège des milliers de sources (AIS, satellites, ports) pour cartographier en temps réel près de 40 matières premières et des dizaines de milliers de navires. 🌍 La pandémie Covid, la guerre en Ukraine et surtout le conflit au Moyen-Orient (Iran, mer Rouge, détroit d’Ormuz) l’ont propulsée au rang de référence stratégique. 💰 Avec environ 300 millions d'euros de chiffre d'affaires en 2026, elle fournit une transparence vitale aux traders, États et organisations internationales. lemonde.fr/economie/artic…

US intelligence concluded that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel, contradicting a key justification by President Donald Trump for his ongoing war. u.afp.com/SL8j

France is the second biggest target of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) globally, behind Ukraine according the the EEAS Very interesting report on FIMIs, their networks and methodologies And a reminder that France still matters enough to be targeted!

Émirats/Ukraine • Les dronistes ukrainiens interceptent leurs premiers Shahed aux Émirats intelligenceonline.fr/moyen-orient-e…

Très intéressante étude du @FPRI sur le coût de la guerre et les munitions tirées durant les 96 premières heures d'#EpicFury/#RoaringLion au regard de celles disponibles. Source : fpri.org/article/2026/0…

Malgré les alertes répétées de ses services de renseignement sur le risque de représailles iraniennes et le blocage du détroit d'Ormuz, Donald Trump a lancé des frappes qui ont entraîné une escalade dans le Golfe latribune.fr/article/defens…

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: The Iran war is the 1st time Trump's style has made it impossible for him to easily talk/improvise his way out. Some in his inner circle have what one official called "buyer's remorse" —growing fears that attacking Iran was a mistake. axios.com/2026/03/16/tru…