Are we that far from them? The ocean that separates us from the Americans seems to be shrinking on the eve of a crucial presidential election for the United States and the world. Could the breakdown of the American dream, crystallised by the enthusiasm of half the nation for a Donald Trump who is delirious – “executing babies after birth, Haitian refugees eating cats and dogs” – and threatening the worst if he does not win, be the XXL version of the breakdown of the French dream?
They are going to vote while we are still recovering from our own elections, from the European elections in June to the legislative elections in July. Loss of buying power, rifts between communities, hate-filled dialogues, ultra-violence, the dictatorship of social networking sites, the grip of conspiracy theorists: the debates that have set the American scene ablaze are echoed in our own.
The contrast between the slender, refined Kamala Harris and the imposing, temperamental and excessive Donald Trump is striking. It is the head-on collision of two Americas that nothing – or almost nothing – can reconcile.
Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate General Qasem Suleimani, N°2 of the Iranian Regime, undeniably transforms a conflict that was slowly simmering into a sudden powder keg. It is undoubtedly the most dangerous and risky decision taken by an American President since the 2nd Gulf War in March 2003.
On September 7th, after a series of attacks perpetrated by Talibans against Afghan population and authorities, not to mention the 14 000 American soldiers stationed in the country, American President, Donald Trump, in one of his famous tweets, decided to put an end to a year of talks with the Talibans. Talks that were supposed to terminate an 18-year-old conflict.
Since President Trump’s offensive, threatening to include the Muslim Brotherhood to the list of terrorist entities, Turkish and Qatari secret services have held numerous meetings in Doha to counter the possible consequences of the implementation of these threats.
The US President, Donald Trump, keeps repeating that he can face Iran without resort to war. However, it would be interesting to hear him specify what he would do if Iran was getting enough enriched uranium to make its nuclear bomb or if Iran took other initiatives that would make it cross the red line set by the United States.
