Dominique Gouesmel🇪🇺🇪🇸🇫🇷

In Memoriam Bichette 5.2015 - 5-2024

📺Sánchez en la OMS: "Nuestro sistema sanitario se enfrenta a una amenaza: la presión de quienes quieren convertir la salud en un negocio. Dirigentes que llegan a las instituciones para desviar dinero público a empresas privadas, debilitando lo común para enriquecer a unos pocos"

Much respect, Prime Minister Meloni.

L’Ukraine affole Moscou et finira par chasser la Russie de son territoire. Elle entrera un jour dans l’UE. L’Europe et la Liberté en seront renforcées. Le narratif europhobe des RN, LFI, AfD et autres UDC devient ridicule. Miser sur la dictature est une idiotie promise à l’échec.

🇺🇸🇵🇱Pete Hegseth annule le déploiement de 4000 hommes en Pologne. D'après Politico, sa décision a stupéfait le Pentagon et Varsovie alors que l’opération était planifiée de longue date et que du matériel avait déjà commencé à arriver. Le signal est d’autant plus inquiétant que la Pologne est précisément l’allié modèle que Washington disait vouloir récompenser : dépenses militaires record, loyauté envers l’OTAN, proximité stratégique avec les États-Unis. Donald Tusk est publiquement très pro-USA. Si même un partenaire aussi aligné peut être lâché du jour au lendemain, cela envoie un message glaçant à toute l’Europe : la fidélité à Washington ne garantit plus le soutien américain. Le chantage de Trump n'a même plus de sens car quoi que l'on fasse, ils nous abandonneront. Face à la Russie, la dissuasion repose autant sur les capacités militaires que sur la certitude d’un engagement collectif; or cette certitude s’effrite. Si les alliés commencent à douter que Washington honorera ses engagements de manière stable et cohérente, Moscou pourrait y voir une fenêtre d’opportunité. Une alliance n’est fiable que si ses membres savent à quoi s’attendre. L'administration Trump n'est plus fiable pour ses alliés mais apparemment elle ne l'est pas non-plus pour le Pentagon lui-même dont les officiels auraient été très surpris de cette décision. Poutine, lui, doit rire aux éclats.

🇨🇳 Chinese car tech is getting harder to dismiss. The West spent decades laughing at Chinese cars. That era is over.

'Corriere della sera' compara la economía italiana con la española y su conclusión es clara: "España es el nuevo motor de Europa" cadenaser.com/nacional/2026/…

Hay que recordar que ese zumbado que gobierna Argentina (por el voto libre de sus ciudadanos) ha sacado a Argentina de la OMS. Cafre. Irresponsable. Suicida.

Nadie supera a Francia en su liturgia republicana. Himno de los partisanos. Esta melodía, compuesta en 1941 como homenaje a partisanos rusos, en el 43 pasa a himno de la Resistencia FR. Primero en versión silbada (que emite la BBC). Luego, con esta letra.

@iguardans Sí, y nadie supera a 🇪🇸 en su anti-patriotismo, que busca constantemente infravalorar al país, a sus logros , a su gente, en el desprecio a su bandera por gran parte de la ciudadanía, que lo asocia a la derecha. Como español orgulloso de serlo desde 2023, me avergüenza mucho.

Marco Rubio Has Discovered That NATO Exists Marco Rubio stood at a podium recently and said, with the confidence of a man who has never read anything, that if NATO can’t be used to “project to other contingencies,” then “we have a problem.” He is correct. There is a problem. The problem is Marco Rubio. Article 5 of the NATO treaty has existed since 1949. It says, in language so simple a golden retriever could grasp it, that an attack on one member is an attack on all. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. You don’t need a law degree. You barely need literacy. What Article 5 does not say, and what no page of the NATO founding treaty has ever suggested, is that 31 sovereign European nations signed up to serve as a strategic parking lot for American military adventures on the other side of the planet. Denmark did not join a defensive alliance in 1949 so that, 75 years later, it could help Washington bomb a country it got bored looking at. NATO is a shield. Not a sword. Not a taxi service. Not a valet for whatever impulsive geopolitical tantrum is trending in Washington this quarter. The Americans have now spent 15 months confused by this distinction. Their finest minds, their cabinet secretaries, their very best people, staring at the treaty like a dog watching television. Ears up. Deeply engaged. Understanding absolutely nothing. The good news is that Europe has finally understood something too: you cannot outsource your survival to people who find a single sentence intellectually challenging. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Everyone's been told the same story for years. Europe is falling behind. America is pulling away. The numbers don't lie. Except the numbers do lie. Or rather, people choose which numbers to show you. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman just published a piece dissecting exactly this. The headline comparison — US GDP vs EU GDP in nominal dollars — shows America now roughly 50% larger than Europe. Devastating, right? Wrong. That gap is mostly the euro weakening against the dollar. It measures currency moves, not economic reality. Now look at GDP at Purchasing Power Parity. PPP adjusts for what money actually buys in each place. It's the honest comparison. That's the chart bellow. Two lines. Running almost parallel. For 17 years. The gap between the US and EU economies in 2024 is barely different from what it was in 2007. Europe didn't collapse. Europeans didn't get poorer relative to Americans. The story was always more complicated than the people telling it wanted you to know. The US dominates tech. Tech had explosive productivity growth. Those productivity gains got passed on globally as cheaper products. So yes, US real GDP grew faster in base-year prices. But Europeans got cheaper iPhones too. The living standard gap didn't move. Krugman's parting observation deserves to be quoted: tech also produces tech-bro billionaires who corrupt politics. Make of that what you will.

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP* Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are. • You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

🇫🇷🇷🇺« C'était une erreur de faire des provocations comme l'élargissement de l'OTAN jusqu'aux frontières de la Russie ». On pourrait croire à une phrase lâchée par Vladimir Poutine mais non, c'est une députée française. L'OTAN n'a pas cherché à s'élargir, ce n'est pas une alliance qui « drague » les pays pour grandir toujours plus et venir menacer la Russie. Ce sont les pays, des États souverains, qui, pour leur défense et parce qu'ils se sentent menacés, demandent à rejoindre l'OTAN pour trouver des alliés militaires fiables. De plus, l'OTAN ne menace personne puisque c'est une alliance militaire DÉFENSIVE et qu'il est rédigé dans sa charte même que la clause d'autodéfense ne peut être déclenchée qu'en cas d'attaque sur un État membre. Le narratif comme quoi l'OTAN a provoqué volontairement ou a menacé la Russie, c'est un élément de langage créé à Moscou. Étrange, ensuite, d'entendre Mme @Clemence_Guette déclarer que « tout le monde le savait, les analystes géopolitiques le savaient ». Sur ce point, je suis très curieux de savoir QUI soutient cette thèse car n'importe quel analyste un minimum sérieux (donc pas les Aberkhane autoproclamés experts en tout) sait pertinemment que l'OTAN est une alliance défensive qui ne menace pas la Russie. On a donc une députée de gauche qui reprend le narratif du Kremlin mot pour mot. Deux hypothèses, la première (ma préférée) c'est qu'elle ne connaît absolument rien à la géopolitique et aux enjeux autour de l'OTAN et de la Russie. La seconde, c'est qu'elle a une complaisance pour la Russie et, là, on a un vrai problème. Personnellement, j'ai peur que ce soit les deux en même temps.

Hemos llegado al punto en el que quien mejor entiende el lugar que debe ocupar Europa en el mundo es el primer ministro canadiense.

No, Spain isn't handing out thousands of euros to newly regularised migrants. Madrid's regularisation programme has been a breeding ground for misinformation ever since it was announced earlier this year. #TheCube has the story on what really happened.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and I are deepening our cooperation in energy, AI, and digital sovereignty — and we have a goal to double two-way trade between Canada and Spain. Thank you for the jersey, and see you at the World Cup! 🇨🇦 🇪🇸

@lopez_vallet @iguardans Recordemos también que llevamos 3 años sin poder aprobar los presupuestos del estado. La imágen que da el gobierno del país con estas reliquias es pésima. Sólo quedan 33 Airbus 310 volando en el mundo, de los cuales 8 en 🇪🇸, y el Falcon más antiguo de « Sánchez » tiene 38 años…

Es patético que la asistencia de España a la Comunidad Política Europea pueda verse comprometida porque el Gobierno no se atreve a renovar la chatarra con la que Sánchez vuela por miedo a lo que el tribunal popular de Twitter diga.

L’Islande avance à août son referendum sur les négociations d’adhésion à 🇪🇺. Les pays se bousculent pour rejoindre l’OTAN (🇫🇮 🇸🇪), pour se rapprocher de 🇪🇺 après avoir fait une grosse bêtise (🇬🇧) ou rejoindre 🇪🇺 (pléthore de candidats). Les souverainistes en retard d’un monde.

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.