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Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte. Why so? In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle insisted he and his Free French movement were the true embodiment of France. Through sheer force of his personality and the grandeur of his vision of France, he inspired French men and women to risk their lives to resist the Nazi occupation. Usually proud and aloof, but almost always confident in his own leadership, he quarreled violently with Churchill, Roosevelt and many of his own countrymen. Yet they knew they would need his help to rebuild a shattered France. Thanks to de Gaulle, France was recognized as one of the victorious Allies when Germany was finally defeated. Then, as President of the Fifth Republic, he brought France back from the brink of a civil war over the war in Algeria. And, made the difficult decision to end the self-same war. Thereafter he challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO, and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community in his pursuit of what he called “a certain idea of France.” Julian Jackson, Professor of History at Queen Mary College, University of London, past winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the winner in 2018 of the Paris Book Award for his book on De Gaulle--De Gaulle (Harvard University Press, 2018)--has written a magnificent biography, the first major reconsideration in over twenty years. Drawing on the extensive resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archives, Jackson reveals the conservative roots of de Gaulle's intellectual formation and upbringing, sheds new light on his relationship with Churchill, and shows how de Gaulle confronted riots at home and violent independence movements abroad from the Middle East to Vietnam. No previous biography has so vividly depicted this towering figure whose legacy remains evident in present-day France. In short Professor Jackson has written a superb book, which in every way possible is a glittering ornament in the biographical art. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte. Why so? In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle insisted he and his Free French movement were the true embodiment of France. Through sheer force of his personality and the grandeur of his vision of France, he inspired French men and women to risk their lives to resist the Nazi occupation. Usually proud and aloof, but almost always confident in his own leadership, he quarreled violently with Churchill, Roosevelt and many of his own countrymen. Yet they knew they would need his help to rebuild a shattered France. Thanks to de Gaulle, France was recognized as one of the victorious Allies when Germany was finally defeated. Then, as President of the Fifth Republic, he brought France back from the brink of a civil war over the war in Algeria. And, made the difficult decision to end the self-same war. Thereafter he challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO, and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community in his pursuit of what he called “a certain idea of France.” Julian Jackson, Professor of History at Queen Mary College, University of London, past winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the winner in 2018 of the Paris Book Award for his book on De Gaulle--De Gaulle (Harvard University Press, 2018)--has written a magnificent biography, the first major reconsideration in over twenty years. Drawing on the extensive resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archives, Jackson reveals the conservative roots of de Gaulle's intellectual formation and upbringing, sheds new light on his relationship with Churchill, and shows how de Gaulle confronted riots at home and violent independence movements abroad from the Middle East to Vietnam. No previous biography has so vividly depicted this towering figure whose legacy remains evident in present-day France. In short Professor Jackson has written a superb book, which in every way possible is a glittering ornament in the biographical art. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography
Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte. Why so? In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle insisted he and his Free French movement were the true embodiment of France. Through sheer force of his personality and the grandeur of his vision of France, he inspired French men and women to risk their lives to resist the Nazi occupation. Usually proud and aloof, but almost always confident in his own leadership, he quarreled violently with Churchill, Roosevelt and many of his own countrymen. Yet they knew they would need his help to rebuild a shattered France. Thanks to de Gaulle, France was recognized as one of the victorious Allies when Germany was finally defeated. Then, as President of the Fifth Republic, he brought France back from the brink of a civil war over the war in Algeria. And, made the difficult decision to end the self-same war. Thereafter he challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO, and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community in his pursuit of what he called “a certain idea of France.” Julian Jackson, Professor of History at Queen Mary College, University of London, past winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the winner in 2018 of the Paris Book Award for his book on De Gaulle--De Gaulle (Harvard University Press, 2018)--has written a magnificent biography, the first major reconsideration in over twenty years. Drawing on the extensive resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archives, Jackson reveals the conservative roots of de Gaulle's intellectual formation and upbringing, sheds new light on his relationship with Churchill, and shows how de Gaulle confronted riots at home and violent independence movements abroad from the Middle East to Vietnam. No previous biography has so vividly depicted this towering figure whose legacy remains evident in present-day France. In short Professor Jackson has written a superb book, which in every way possible is a glittering ornament in the biographical art. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies
Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte. Why so? In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle insisted he and his Free French movement were the true embodiment of France. Through sheer force of his personality and the grandeur of his vision of France, he inspired French men and women to risk their lives to resist the Nazi occupation. Usually proud and aloof, but almost always confident in his own leadership, he quarreled violently with Churchill, Roosevelt and many of his own countrymen. Yet they knew they would need his help to rebuild a shattered France. Thanks to de Gaulle, France was recognized as one of the victorious Allies when Germany was finally defeated. Then, as President of the Fifth Republic, he brought France back from the brink of a civil war over the war in Algeria. And, made the difficult decision to end the self-same war. Thereafter he challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO, and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community in his pursuit of what he called “a certain idea of France.” Julian Jackson, Professor of History at Queen Mary College, University of London, past winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the winner in 2018 of the Paris Book Award for his book on De Gaulle--De Gaulle (Harvard University Press, 2018)--has written a magnificent biography, the first major reconsideration in over twenty years. Drawing on the extensive resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archives, Jackson reveals the conservative roots of de Gaulle's intellectual formation and upbringing, sheds new light on his relationship with Churchill, and shows how de Gaulle confronted riots at home and violent independence movements abroad from the Middle East to Vietnam. No previous biography has so vividly depicted this towering figure whose legacy remains evident in present-day France. In short Professor Jackson has written a superb book, which in every way possible is a glittering ornament in the biographical art. Charles Coutinho holds a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies
L'aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle accueille en moyenne 250 000 avions par an et plus de 530 espèces de plantes et d'animaux. Reportage près des pistes du plus grand aéroport de France, à la rencontre d'une biodiversité parfois inattendue. (rediffusion du 25 septembre 2024) Un gros oiseau de fer passe presque au-dessus de nos têtes. C'est un avion d'Air France, à 100 mètres du sol, tout près d'atterrir à l'aéroport de Roissy, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG), au nord de Paris, dans un vacarme assourdissant. On ne s'entend plus, à 300 mètres à peine de la piste. Mais quelques secondes plus tard, le silence (toute proportion gardée) est là, et c'est un autre oiseau qu'on entend. « C'est un pic-vert qui rigole comme ça, note Nicolas Croizé, ornithologue pour AéroBiodiversité, une association qui défend et recense la biodiversité dans les aéroports français. On peut entendre comme maintenant des moments d'accalmie où les oiseaux vont être capables de chanter, et donc de s'identifier, de retrouver leurs jeunes, de former des couples... S'ils sont ici, c'est qu'ils s'y sont adaptés et qu'ils y sont bien. » Les aéroports, d'où décollent et où atterrissent les avions émetteurs de 3% des émissions mondiales de CO2, le principal gaz à effet de serre responsable de la crise climatique, peuvent paradoxalement abriter une riche biodiversité. À CDG, on a déjà compté plus de 530 espèces végétales et animales, et donc pas mal d'oiseaux. « Je crois qu'en face il y a l'épervier », qui s'est envolé quand on l'a regardé. Autour de nous, en contrebas de la piste, de la prairie, des plantes, des arbres, et un immense bassin récupérateur des eaux de pluie qui tombent sur le tarmac. En ce matin de septembre, le niveau de l'eau est au plus bas, sécheresse oblige. Mais au loin, quelques canards barbotent. « Là-bas, près de la berge, ce sont principalement des canards colvert, décrit Nicolas Croizé. Au milieu, beaucoup plus petits, ce sont des grèbes castagneux, ce sont ceux qu'on voit plonger. » « Ah, on a eu une nidification de l'autre côté », lui répond Emmanuel Vesval, référent environnement à l'aéroport de Roissy. Nids d'oiseaux Plusieurs nids de différentes espèces d'oiseaux ont été observés depuis le printemps. « Qu'il y ait de la reproduction, c'est intéressant, souligne Nicolas Croizé. Ça veut dire que les oiseaux ne sont pas seulement de passage et qu'ils vont y passer toute la saison, donc qu'il y a de quoi s'alimenter, de quoi se reposer, de quoi faire un nid. » « Quand vous voyez des cigognes, ça peut surprendre ! Comme on a une partie humide, avec de l'eau, au niveau migratoire on peut avoir beaucoup d'oiseaux qui viennent entre novembre et février », précise de son côté Emmanuel Vesval. Les naturalistes d'AéroBiodiversité effectuent des visites régulières dans des zones où on ne pénètre que sur autorisation spéciale. « On se déplace trois fois par an sur les aéroports, explique Nicolas Croizé. On vient en avril, en juin et en septembre. Le but de notre venue, c'est de faire l'inventaire de toutes les espèces qu'on va pouvoir retrouver sur la plateforme. » Ils sont les bienvenus. Au conseil d'administration d'AéroBiodiversité siègent les patrons des aéroports parisiens, soucieux de présenter une autre image que celle véhiculée par les plateformes aéroportuaires : pollution, nuisances sonores... « Sur les 3 800 hectares de plateforme à Roissy, on a quand même 1 200 hectares de prairies aéronautiques, assure Emmanuel Vesval. On ne peut pas dire qu'elles sont polluées puisqu'on a beaucoup d'espèces qui y vivent. On a une biodiversité qui est tout de même assez impressionnante. » Un renard en bord de piste On est descendu un peu plus bas encore. Un petit ruisseau coule au milieu de saules. Les oiseaux reprennent leur chant dès qu'un avion est passé. Oiseaux et avions ne font pourtant pas bon ménage. « Ce qui va poser problème, c'est surtout la quantité, le nombre d'oiseaux qui vont se retrouver au même moment au même endroit, explique Meriem Methlouti, chargée d'études naturalistes pour AéroBiodiversité. Et c'est pour cela que les effaroucheurs essaient de les éloigner quand un avion s'approche de la piste. Sur certains aéroports, des rapaces sont dressés, mais pas à Charles-de-Gaulle. » « En général, ce sont des gens, formés, avec des véhicules, qui émettent des sons d'oiseaux, par exemple, ou qui tirent au fusil en l'air, pour que les oiseaux s'envolent de la piste. C'est à la fois pour éviter les accidents avec les avions, mais aussi pour limiter l'impact des avions sur les oiseaux, pour éviter qu'ils tuent des oiseaux lors de collision », complète Nicolas Croizé. Mais il n'y a pas que des oiseaux à CDG. On peut aussi croiser des mammifères, des lapins par exemple, que le voyageur, à travers le hublot, aperçoit parfois gambader dans la prairie que longe la piste, indifférent au bruit effrayant de l'avion. « On n'en voit pas autant qu'il y a des années, relève pourtant Emmanuel Vesval. On a l'impression que ça se régule tout seul, parce qu'on n'a pas de maladies, on n'a pas de tout ça...» Le régulateur justement, on l'a aperçu ce matin. Une patrouille de gendarmes en voiture s'arrête à notre hauteur. « Vous avez vu du renard aujourd'hui ?, leur demande Emmanuel Vesval. J'ai vu l'effaroucheur côté sud, apparemment, ils annonçaient un renard en bord de piste. » Une salade et une infusion La promenade se prolonge jusqu'à l'extrémité est de la plateforme aéroportuaire et prend des airs bucoliques. Le chant d'une bergeronnette grise. Le cri de corneilles. Des orties. Des baies d'églantiers, si rouges en cette veille d'automne. « C'est le gratte-cul ! C'est le poil à gratter !, rigole Meriem Methlouti, botaniste. On les mange en confiture. On a trouvé de la verveine et de la camomille, on peut se faire une petite infusion. Là il y a de la tomate sauvage, la morelle, et puis il y a de la mâche, du panais, de la carotte...» « On pourrait presque faire une salade au niveau de la plateforme, avec tout ce qu'on a en plantes ! », conclut dans un sourire Emmanuel Vesval. On entend encore un avion atterrir. On ne les compte plus. On se croirait presque à la campagne.
durée : 00:08:53 - France Culture va plus loin (l'Invité(e) des Matins d'été) - par : Astrid de Villaines, Stéphanie Villeneuve, Sarah Masson - En 1959, le Général de Gaulle revient au pouvoir pour résoudre ce qu'on appelle encore les “événements d'Algérie”. Au cœur d'une des dernières colonies françaises, dans un contexte éruptif, un quatuor de grands gaillards est chargé de la sécurité du chef d'État “le plus menacé de la planète”. - réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Xavier Dorison Scénariste de bande-dessinée
durée : 00:58:45 - Les Grandes Traversées - Il reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature en 1953, notamment "pour ses brillantes qualités oratoires dans la défense des grandes valeurs de l'humanité". Son épouse, Clémentine, reçoit le prix pour lui. Qui est l'écrivain Churchill ? L'histoire retient de Winston Churchill son rôle de leader politique et militaire, véritable figure de proue de la victoire des Alliés à l'issue de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pourtant, moins connue du grand public, sa carrière d'écrivain lui a aussi valu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1953. Une récompense qui distingue un grand œuvre porteur "de valeurs humaines". Un style littéraire unique au service de l'histoire et de la politique Churchill était un écrivain talentueux et un orateur engagé, mais aussi un stratège politique. Jean-Claude Zilberstein, éditeur passionné, souligne l'admiration que suscite l'œuvre de Churchill, notamment ses mémoires et ses discours, véritables joyaux d'un style unique, rythmé et puissant. Sa maîtrise de la langue, en anglais comme en français, et son sens aigu de la formule ont marqué durablement la littérature et la politique. Au-delà de l'écriture, il est présenté comme un homme de théâtre capable de captiver ses auditeurs par des discours vibrants, notamment ceux prononcés en 1940 à la Chambre des communes. Les spécialistes rapprochent l'homme d'État d'écrivains britanniques classiques comme Evelyn Waugh ou P.G. Wodehouse, le plaçant dans une tradition littéraire mêlant humour, conservatisme et finesse stylistique. Son œuvre, marquée par une conscience historique profonde héritée de ses lectures, représente un témoignage précieux sur son époque. Un héritage littéraire et historique durable L'Académie suédoise, en lui décernant le Nobel de littérature, a récompensé non seulement sa maîtrise de l'histoire et de la biographie, mais aussi les "valeurs humaines" de son œuvre et de ses discours. Malgré son absence à la cérémonie, Churchill envoya Lady Clementine, son épouse, prononcer son discours de réception. Encore un signe, s'il en fallait un, que l'homme était partagé entre ses trois grandes passions, " le métier des armes, la politique et l'écriture", résume l'historien François Kersaudy. Ses mémoires furent toutefois le fruit d'un travail collaboratif : des assistants préparaient les premiers brouillons, tandis que l'homme d'État passait de longues heures à peaufiner son style, reconnaissable à ses formules percutantes et son rythme narratif. Avant publication, les écrits de Churchill sont soumis à relecture. Et ils passent ainsi "par tout le monde, par ses anciens collègues, par le Foreign Office, par le ministère de la Guerre, par les services secrets, par le roi, par le gouvernement, par le général Eisenhower" et n'échappent pas à une certaine censure, explique François Kersaudy. Un procédé de bonne guerre et assez commun,"pour éviter les gènes diplomatiques", poursuit l'historien Robert Tombs. Si certains critiques questionnent l'authenticité des ouvrages du "vieux lion" en rappelant le recours aux prête-plume pour leur rédaction, d'autres reconnaissent en Churchill un écrivain puissant, vivant et accessible, aux antipodes d'un Charles de Gaulle à la prose plus austère. Roger Katz, libraire à Londres, témoigne d'ailleurs de l'engouement toujours plus vif pour les livres de Churchill. Ce succès durable témoigne de la place centrale qu'occupe l'homme politique dans la mémoire collective britannique et mondiale.
80 ans après la libération de la France, nous revisitons le procès historique du Maréchal Pétain lors de l'été 1945. « C'est un vrai procès, avec un vrai débat », déclare l'historien Julian Jackson dans les lieux même où il s'est déroulé, au sein du Palais de justice de Paris, sur l'île de la Cité. Julian Jackson est spécialiste de l'histoire de France au XXème siècle et il nous propose de revivre le procès de l'ancien chef du gouvernement de Vichy, une expérience inédite enregistrée par RFI et partagée avec notre invité Denis Salas, président de l'Association française de l'Histoire de la justice et ancien juge. Revenons justement à l'Occupation de la France par les nazis et à cette photographie qui a tellement choqué les Français : le Maréchal Pétain, héros de la Première guerre mondiale, serrant la main de Hitler, le 24 Octobre 1940. Une photo symbole de la collaboration. C'est à la radio que le Maréchal Pétain explique alors son choix. « Français j'ai rencontré le Chancelier du Reich. Cette première rencontre entre le vainqueur et le vaincu marque le premier redressement de notre pays. C'est dans l'honneur et pour maintenir l'unité française que j'entre aujourd'hui dans la voie de la collaboration. (…) L'armistice au demeurant n'est pas la paix (…) la France est tenue par des obligations nombreuses vis-à-vis du vainqueur, du moins reste-t-elle souveraine. Cette politique est la mienne, mes ministres ne sont responsables que devant moi. C'est moi seul que l'Histoire jugera. » C'est également à la radio que Charles de Gaulle, Chef de la France libre a fait connaitre son choix. « Un jour, la France libérée punira les responsables de ces désastres et les artisans de sa servitude. » Comme l'avait déclaré le Général De Gaulle en 1940, il s'agit en 1945 de punir Pétain mais aussi de le juger. Le Maréchal Pétain s'est rendu à la France depuis la Suisse, fin Avril 1945 et que c'est en prison à Montrouge dans le sud de Paris, qu'il attend son procès. Un procès qui a lieu au sein de la première Chambre d'appel de la Cour de Paris du 23 juillet au 15 Août 1945. Et c'est dans cette même salle que Julian Jackson nous raconte les trois semaines du procès. Si la première semaine est marquée par le silence de Pétain, le grand évènement de la deuxième semaine, c'est l'arrivée de Pierre Laval. Joseph Kessel écrit sur « sa laideur fascinante, avec ses énormes oreilles et ses yeux reptiliens », il serait le mauvais génie de Pétain. Si l'accusation réclame la peine de mort, l'avocat principal Fernand Payen joue la carte de la sénilité tandis que le jeune et brillant Jacques Isorni, partage les valeurs de son client et met en scène une défense de rupture en assumant la collaboration de Vichy. Tous les protagonistes sont conscients que le verdict de la peine de mort sera commué en prison à vie. Mais ce procès pour l'Histoire écrit-il toute l'histoire de la collaboration de Vichy avec les nazis ? « Certainement pas, nous dit Denis Salas, il y a un moment de justice avec ce procès de 45, qui a été prolongé et complété par la suite par d'autres moments de justice (Entre 1987 et 1998, la justice française a jugé Klaus Barbie, Paul Touvier et Maurice Papon) qui ont prouvé la participation active et déterminante du régime de Vichy à la déportation des juifs de France. À lire aussiProcès de Klaus Barbie: 30 ans après, les archives ouvertes aux chercheurs À lire aussiL'Argentine retire à Maurice Papon une distinction reçue pendant la dictature À lire : Le procès Pétain. Vichy face à ses juges par Julian Jackson. À découvrir : Le site de l'association française pour l'Histoire de la justice présidée par Denis Salas.
The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the alliance has indeed avoided war with Russia, also becoming a major political, strategic and diplomatic player well beyond its borders. It has survived disagreements between leaders from Eisenhower, Churchill and de Gaulle to Trump, Stoltenberg and Merkel, faced down Kremlin foes from Stalin to Putin and endured unending questions and debate over what new nations might be allowed to join. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Hachette UK, 2024) takes the reader from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the current confrontation with the Kremlin following the invasion of Ukraine. It examines the tightrope walked by alliance leaders between a powerful United States sometimes flirting with isolationism and European nations with their ever-evolving wishes for autonomy and influence. Having spent much of its life preparing for conflicts that might never come, NATO has sometimes found itself in wars that few had predicted – and with its members now again planning for a potential major European conflict. It is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military and diplomatic posturing – as well as espionage, politics and protest. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history – and looks ahead to what might be the most dangerous era it has ever faced. Peter Apps is global defence correspondent for Reuters news agency and is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). He is the author of two Kindle Singles. BEFORE EBOLA (2014) describes his experiences covering haemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2005 while CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES (2015) reconstructs the experiences of Britain's future prime minister at the front line during the First World War. Peter's podcast, focusing on modern military topics, as part of PS21 can be found here. Sidney Michelini is a post-doctoral researcher working on Ecology, Climate, and Violence at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF). Book Recomendations: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Tom Clancy novels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the alliance has indeed avoided war with Russia, also becoming a major political, strategic and diplomatic player well beyond its borders. It has survived disagreements between leaders from Eisenhower, Churchill and de Gaulle to Trump, Stoltenberg and Merkel, faced down Kremlin foes from Stalin to Putin and endured unending questions and debate over what new nations might be allowed to join. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Hachette UK, 2024) takes the reader from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the current confrontation with the Kremlin following the invasion of Ukraine. It examines the tightrope walked by alliance leaders between a powerful United States sometimes flirting with isolationism and European nations with their ever-evolving wishes for autonomy and influence. Having spent much of its life preparing for conflicts that might never come, NATO has sometimes found itself in wars that few had predicted – and with its members now again planning for a potential major European conflict. It is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military and diplomatic posturing – as well as espionage, politics and protest. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history – and looks ahead to what might be the most dangerous era it has ever faced. Peter Apps is global defence correspondent for Reuters news agency and is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). He is the author of two Kindle Singles. BEFORE EBOLA (2014) describes his experiences covering haemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2005 while CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES (2015) reconstructs the experiences of Britain's future prime minister at the front line during the First World War. Peter's podcast, focusing on modern military topics, as part of PS21 can be found here. Sidney Michelini is a post-doctoral researcher working on Ecology, Climate, and Violence at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF). Book Recomendations: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Tom Clancy novels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the alliance has indeed avoided war with Russia, also becoming a major political, strategic and diplomatic player well beyond its borders. It has survived disagreements between leaders from Eisenhower, Churchill and de Gaulle to Trump, Stoltenberg and Merkel, faced down Kremlin foes from Stalin to Putin and endured unending questions and debate over what new nations might be allowed to join. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Hachette UK, 2024) takes the reader from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the current confrontation with the Kremlin following the invasion of Ukraine. It examines the tightrope walked by alliance leaders between a powerful United States sometimes flirting with isolationism and European nations with their ever-evolving wishes for autonomy and influence. Having spent much of its life preparing for conflicts that might never come, NATO has sometimes found itself in wars that few had predicted – and with its members now again planning for a potential major European conflict. It is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military and diplomatic posturing – as well as espionage, politics and protest. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history – and looks ahead to what might be the most dangerous era it has ever faced. Peter Apps is global defence correspondent for Reuters news agency and is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). He is the author of two Kindle Singles. BEFORE EBOLA (2014) describes his experiences covering haemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2005 while CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES (2015) reconstructs the experiences of Britain's future prime minister at the front line during the First World War. Peter's podcast, focusing on modern military topics, as part of PS21 can be found here. Sidney Michelini is a post-doctoral researcher working on Ecology, Climate, and Violence at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF). Book Recomendations: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Tom Clancy novels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the alliance has indeed avoided war with Russia, also becoming a major political, strategic and diplomatic player well beyond its borders. It has survived disagreements between leaders from Eisenhower, Churchill and de Gaulle to Trump, Stoltenberg and Merkel, faced down Kremlin foes from Stalin to Putin and endured unending questions and debate over what new nations might be allowed to join. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Hachette UK, 2024) takes the reader from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the current confrontation with the Kremlin following the invasion of Ukraine. It examines the tightrope walked by alliance leaders between a powerful United States sometimes flirting with isolationism and European nations with their ever-evolving wishes for autonomy and influence. Having spent much of its life preparing for conflicts that might never come, NATO has sometimes found itself in wars that few had predicted – and with its members now again planning for a potential major European conflict. It is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military and diplomatic posturing – as well as espionage, politics and protest. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history – and looks ahead to what might be the most dangerous era it has ever faced. Peter Apps is global defence correspondent for Reuters news agency and is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). He is the author of two Kindle Singles. BEFORE EBOLA (2014) describes his experiences covering haemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2005 while CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES (2015) reconstructs the experiences of Britain's future prime minister at the front line during the First World War. Peter's podcast, focusing on modern military topics, as part of PS21 can be found here. Sidney Michelini is a post-doctoral researcher working on Ecology, Climate, and Violence at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF). Book Recomendations: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Tom Clancy novels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs
Trong lĩnh vực an ninh quốc phòng của châu Âu, ngày 10/07/2025, đã có một diễn biến quan trọng. Tổng thống Pháp Emmanuel Macron, trong chuyến công du Anh, đã cùng thủ tướng Keir Starmer thông qua một thỏa thuận về việc tiến tới thiết lập cơ chế hợp tác về hệ thống vũ khí hạt nhân răn đe, trong bối cảnh đe dọa từ Nga gia tăng. Việc phối hợp vũ khí hạt nhân răn đe không chỉ nhằm để hai nước tự vệ trước Nga, mà đặc biệt hướng tới nâng cao năng lực tự vệ của châu Âu trong bối cảnh Mỹ có nguy cơ rút một phần đáng kể các cam kết bảo vệ châu Âu. Tuyên bố của hai lãnh đạo Pháp, Anh có mang lại một thay đổi chiến lược đối với kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu hay không ? Đọc thêm : Đài truyền hình Rossiya 1 - Tên lửa hạt nhân Nga có thể tấn công Berlin, Luân Đôn, Paris trong vòng 200 giây Đe dọa Nga và thay đổi lớn trong « học thuyết vũ khí hạt nhân » của Pháp và Anh Về phối hợp vũ khí hạt nhân răn đe Pháp – Anh, tổng thống Emmanuel Macron tuyên bố: « Về vũ khí hạt nhân, chúng tôi đã đưa ra ba quyết định quan trọng. Vấn đề trước hết liên quan đến học thuyết của hai nước chúng ta. Chúng tôi thừa nhận hai nước Pháp và Anh chúng ta không thể tưởng tượng ra một tình huống đe dọa cực kỳ nguy hiểm nào đối với châu Âu nào mà không khiến chúng tôi phải phản ứng nhanh chóng, bất kể bản chất của phản ứng đó là gì. Quyết định thứ hai là chúng tôi không loại trừ việc phối hợp các lực lượng răn đe hạt nhân của nhau. Đây là một thông điệp mà các đối tác và đối thủ của chúng ta cần lắng nghe. Thứ ba là tăng cường hơn nữa hợp tác của chúng ta trong lĩnh vực răn đe hạt nhân, về mặt chính sách, về mặt lực lượng hay về mặt hoạt động. » Đọc thêm: Anh - Pháp công bố chiến lược răn đe hạt nhân chung nhằm đối phó với Nga Tuyên bố chung của hai lãnh đạo Anh, Pháp nêu rõ « đây là lần đầu tiên các lực lượng răn đe hạt nhân độc lập của hai nước có thể được phối hợp với nhau ». Theo tổng thống Pháp, đây là một quyết định « chưa có tiền lệ ». Đài Pháp France Info dẫn lại đô đốc Jean-Louis Lozier, cố vấn của Trung tâm Nghiên cứu An ninh thuộc Viện Quan hệ Quốc tế Pháp (Ifri), xem đây là « bước tiến lớn » trong học thuyết hạt nhân, « đặc biệt về phía Pháp ». Vị cố vấn của Ifri nhấn mạnh « trước tuyên bố này, chúng ta chưa bao giờ cân nhắc đến việc phối hợp lực lượng răn đe hạt nhân với các đồng minh, mặc dù chúng tôi có cùng chung lợi ích ». Paris và Luân Đôn từng ký một tuyên bố chung năm 1995, nêu rõ, « không có tình huống nào mà lợi ích sống còn của một bên bị đe dọa mà lợi ích sống còn của bên kia không bị đe dọa », nhưng văn bản này không đề cập đến khả năng răn đe hạt nhân. Chuyên gia Jean-Louis Lozier tin tưởng chủ trương phối hợp răn đe hạt nhân « có thể cho phép hai cường quốc hạt nhân châu Âu đáp trả trong trường hợp Hoa Kỳ phản ứng hơi chậm » trước một cuộc tấn công nhằm vào các đồng minh châu Âu. Chính quyền Trump, một đối tượng chính của thông điệp hợp tác Pháp-Anh Trong một cuộc tọa đàm của France Info về chủ đề này, được tổ chức sau tuyên bố của hai lãnh đạo Anh, Pháp, nhà phân tích địa chiến lược Michel Fayard nhận định: « Ở đây cũng có một thông điệp được gửi đi, vượt ra ngoài lãnh đạo Nga Vladimir Putin, mà đặc biệt là tới Donald Trump bởi, vì tình thế mà chúng ta đang sống hiện nay thực sự rất giống với thời điểm khủng hoảng kênh đào Suez năm 1956. Khi Pháp và Anh, những đồng minh của Israel vào thời điểm đó, đã có phần bị người Mỹ phản bội. Hiện nay, nước Mỹ cũng muốn rút lui, ít nhất là một phần, khỏi các cam kết của họ với châu Âu. Họ vẫn còn ở trong NATO, nhưng muốn các đối tác của mình phải trả nhiều tiền hơn. Họ cũng muốn bán vũ khí của mình và không viện trợ vũ khí cho nước này hay nước khác. Vì vậy, hiện nay, điều rất quan trọng đối với Pháp và Anh là xác lập một Thỏa thuận Liên kết mới (Entente Cordiale), thực sự củng cố sức mạnh của hai nước, không chỉ của Pháp và Anh, mà còn của toàn bộ châu Âu. Điều rất quan trọng là cả hai đều phải làm như vậy, vì họ là hai quốc gia duy nhất ở châu Âu có vũ khí hạt nhân hiện nay. Ngay cả khi Đức muốn luân chuyển vũ khí hạt nhân ở châu Âu, điều này là không thể chấp nhận được đối với Pháp, cũng như với Anh. » Pháp và Anh sẽ phối hợp ra sao trong chiến lược răn đe hạt nhân ? Theo thỏa thuận giữa lãnh đạo hai nước, « một nhóm giám sát hạt nhân » (groupe de supervision nucléaire) sẽ được Paris và Luân Đôn thành lập, và do phủ tổng thống Pháp và văn phòng chính phủ Anh đồng chủ trì, theo nhà nghiên cứu Héloïse Fayet, viện Ifri. Nhóm giám sát hạt nhân này sẽ chịu trách nhiệm « điều phối sự hợp tác ngày càng tăng trong các lĩnh vực chính sách, năng lực và hoạt động ». Theo chuyên gia Héloïse Fayet, việc phối hợp có thể liên quan đến việc tổ chức các cuộc tập trận. Về mặt nguyên tắc, việc phối hợp hệ thống hạt nhân sẽ giúp cho sức mạnh răn đe của Pháp, với 290 đầu đạn và của Anh, với 225 đầu đạn, có trọng lượng hơn trước Nga. Hai kho vũ khí hạt nhân của Pháp và Anh cộng lại nhỏ hơn nhiều so với hệ thống vũ khí của Nga, với hơn 6.000 đầu đạn, nhưng « điều quan trọng là hệ thống răn đe phải đáng tin cậy trong mắt các đồng minh và đối thủ của chúng ta », bà Héloïse Fayet nhấn mạnh. Chặng mới trong hợp tác quân sự mật thiết, lâu đời Anh Pháp Quyết định có ý nghĩa lịch sử về việc phối hợp lực lượng răn đe hạt nhân Pháp, Anh, được đưa ra ngày 10/07/2025, trên thực tế nằm trong quan hệ hợp tác quân sự lâu đời giữa Paris và Luân Đôn, được xác lập từ đầu thế kỉ 20. Hợp tác về răn đe hạt nhân nói riêng và quốc phòng nói chung giữa Anh và Pháp có thể trở thành một trụ cột của an ninh châu Âu. Ông Emmanuel Dupuy, chủ tịch viện nghiên cứu Chiến lược và An ninh tại châu Âu (Institut Prospective et Sécurité en Europe - IPSE), nhận định : « Ý tưởng mở rộng hợp tác này không chỉ liên quan đến Pháp và Anh, hai nước chiếm đến 40% phương tiện và lực lượng có thể triển khai tại châu Âu. Điều này không có nghĩa là các nước khác kém hơn, nhưng rõ ràng có một quyết tâm chính trị đã được tái khẳng định trong hội nghị thượng đỉnh vừa qua tại Northwood, một căn cứ của NATO, ở Anh. Ý tưởng vốn đã được Jacques Chirac đưa ra tại thượng đỉnh năm 1998 tại Saint-Malo, thường được gọi là Thỏa thuận Liên kết Pháp – Anh lần thứ hai kể từ năm 1904, là năm mà Pháp và Anh xác lập « Entente Cordiale ». Vì vậy, chúng ta đang từng bước tiến tới ý tưởng rằng Anh và Pháp, gắn bó mật thiết, tạo ra thành phần cốt lõi của châu Âu về quốc phòng, không chỉ của Liên Hiệp Châu Âu, mà của châu Âu, vì Anh không nằm trong EU. Hiện tại còn rất nhiều điều không rõ ràng về những diễn biến tiếp theo ». Phối hợp, nhưng độc lập trong quyết định sử dụng… : Những giới hạn của hợp tác Theo giới chuyên gia, tuyên bố ngày 10/07 về phối hợp răn đe hạt nhân Pháp – Anh trước hết mang ý nghĩa chính trị là chủ yếu. Để việc hợp tác thực sự có thể diễn ra cần những điều chỉnh cụ thể về học thuyết hạt nhân của hai nước cũng như các chiến lược, phương tiện, cho phép phối hợp. Trong một cuộc trả lời phỏng vấn đài Pháp Cnews, tướng Jean-Paul Paloméros, cựu tư lệnh khối NATO, cựu tư lệnh Không quân Pháp, nhấn mạnh đến mối quan hệ phụ thuộc của Anh vào Mỹ về chiến lược hạt nhân, như một trở ngại lớn cho các hợp tác Anh – Pháp : « Ở đây có một vấn đề lớn, đó là sự phụ thuộc của nước Anh vào nước Mỹ. Điều quan trọng cần biết là cho đến nay, Anh chỉ có một lực lượng hạt nhân, đó là bốn tàu ngầm được trang bị tên lửa đạn đạo chạy bằng năng lượng hạt nhân, nhưng trong trường hợp này, những tên lửa này là tên lửa Trident, tức của Mỹ. Vì vậy, chúng ta thấy sự phụ thuộc của Vương quốc Anh vào Mỹ bất chấp mọi thứ. Vương quốc Anh, và đây là một yếu tố quan trọng của hồ sơ, cũng vừa quyết định hành động như một nước châu Âu, nghĩa là nhận lấy một trách nhiệm liên quan đến khả năng răn đe hạt nhân của NATO. Tuy nhiên, cần phải nhấn mạnh rằng những máy bay F-35, mà Anh mua từ Hoa Kỳ, sẽ mang theo bom hạt nhân, bản thân chúng là của Mỹ, do đó việc sử dụng nằm trong phạm vi cho phép của Donald Trump. Vì vậy, chúng ta cảm thấy cùng lúc có sự tăng cường, có những giới hạn của nó. Đây là điều cần hiểu rõ ! » Cảnh giác trước lập trường "bắt cá hai tay" của Anh Về nguy cơ Anh phụ thuộc vào Mỹ cản trở các phối hợp với Pháp, thượng nghị sĩ Christian Cambon, đặc phái viên của chủ tịch Thượng Viện Pháp về quan hệ quốc tế, giải thích : « Tôi nghĩ rằng sự phối hợp đang được đề cập ngược lại cũng có thể sẽ cho phép người Mỹ trở lại cuộc chơi, đáng buồn thay, khi Anh Quốc gần đây đã mua máy bay F-35 có thể mang tên lửa của Mỹ. Vì vậy, tôi muốn nhắc nhở các vị rằng có sự khác biệt lớn giữa hai lực lượng của chúng ta, giữa hai thành phần răn đe hạt nhân của Pháp và Anh. Về phía Pháp, chúng ta có toàn quyền quyết định, một quyền quyết định từ trên xuống, từ tổng thống. Ở Anh thì không phải như vậy. Người Mỹ vào một thời điểm nào đó có thể can thiệp. Vậy nên điều này sẽ gây ra vấn đề, vì lần này không phải là một ‘‘cuộc hôn nhân của hai người' mà là của ba người, đặt ra một vấn đề thực sự. Tướng de Gaulle trước đây đã từng cảm nhận được điều này. Đó là lý do tại sao ông đã rút Pháp khỏi Ủy ban Kế hoạch phòng thủ của khối NATO, ủy ban Kế hoạch hạt nhân của khối NATO. » Nước Anh cách đây không lâu đã đứng về phía Mỹ trong vụ tước đoạt hợp đồng tàu ngầm 50 tỉ đô la với Úc. « Chủ nghĩa thực dụng kiểu Anh », và sự phụ thuộc của Anh vào Mỹ cũng là điều mà nhà phân tích địa chiến lược Michel Fayard nhấn mạnh : « Trong mọi trường hợp, thách thức thực sự đối với Vương quốc Anh là thoát khỏi sự phụ thuộc vào Mỹ về hạt nhân. Có lẽ việc hợp tác với Pháp có thể giúp điều này trở thành hiện thực. Nhưng vấn đề nan giải ở đây là người Anh thường chơi trò hai mặt, nghĩa là cùng lúc chơi cả quân bài châu Âu và quân bài Mỹ. Họ gọi đó là ‘‘chủ nghĩa thực dụng''. Vâng, có thể nói đó là chủ nghĩa thực dụng kiểu Anh. » Hướng đến hệ thống răn đe hạt nhân riêng của châu Âu ? Trên thực tế, việc Pháp chính thức thiết lập với Anh chủ trương phối hợp các lực lượng răn đe hạt nhân nằm trong đường hướng chung của tổng thống Pháp Emmanuel Macron, được xác định đặc biệt rõ ràng kể từ khi Nga xâm lược Ukraina : Xây dựng một sự tự trị về quốc phòng của châu Âu trong lòng NATO. Sự phụ thuộc gần như hoàn toàn về mặt an ninh vào Mỹ đang đặt Liên Âu nói riêng và châu lục nói chung trước thử thách sống còn, vì các tham vọng của Nga không chỉ dừng ở Ukraina. Đọc thêm : Pháp sẵn sàng đưa « vũ khí hạt nhân » vào chính sách phòng thủ chung châu Âu Tháng 3 vừa qua, tổng thống Macron đã nhấn mạnh đến việc Paris sẵn sàng đặt châu Âu dưới sự bảo vệ của hệ thống răn đe hạt nhân của Pháp. Thủ tướng Đức sau đó cũng phát tín hiệu hưởng ứng. Trong giới chính trị và chuyên gia châu Âu, đã bắt đầu có nhiều thảo luận về ý tưởng xây dựng hệ thống răn đe hạt nhân của riêng châu Âu. Vũ khí hạt nhân châu Âu hay lực lượng quốc phòng chung của châu Âu đang là các vấn đề gây rất nhiều bất đồng sâu sắc trong nội bộ châu Âu. Chuyên gia về lịch sử chính trị thế giới đương đại Gilles Richard, giáo sư danh dự các trường đại học, Đại học Rennes 2 (Pháp), trả lời phỏng vấn The Conversation, nhấn mạnh là việc hướng đến xây dựng một nền quốc phòng chung của khối đặt ra khẩn cấp vấn đề xây dựng « một quyền lực chính trị chung », một thể chế kiểu liên bang, mà thiếu định chế này thì sẽ khó lòng mà có được một nền quốc phòng chung. Đe dọa từ Nga, nguy cơ bị Mỹ ngoảnh mặt, đang « đẩy châu Âu vào chân tường », theo sử gia Gilles Richard (bài về nền Quốc phòng châu Âu, hệ thống răn đe hạt nhân Pháp mở rộng : Phải chăng đây là một thời điểm de Gaulle mới / un nouveau moment gaullien, ngụ ý nhắc đến việc tổng thống de Gaulle trong thập niên 60 từng đề xuất đặt nước Đức dưới sự bảo trợ của hạt nhân Pháp). Châu Âu tăng cường răn đe hạt nhân và khả năng « đối thoại chiến lược » với Nga ? Châu Âu – khu vực lâu nay nằm dưới cái ô hạt nhân của Mỹ, một thời tưởng như được hưởng nền hòa bình vĩnh viễn - đứng trước đe dọa bị tấn công, kể từ chiến tranh Ukraina. Vũ khí hạt nhân, sau nửa thế kỷ bị quên lãng, đang bắt đầu được coi như một phương tiện tự vệ thiết yếu trước đại cường hạt nhân Nga. Nhìn chung, xét về viễn cảnh tăng cường năng lực tự trị quốc phòng của châu Âu, việc nước Pháp đạt được một thỏa thuận phối hợp răn đe hạt nhân với Anh vừa qua chỉ là bước đầu của việc xây dựng một kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu mới, trong đó vai trò của Mỹ có thể sẽ khác trước rất nhiều. Đọc thêm : Nửa thế kỷ ''Hiệp định Helsinki'' - Chiến tranh Ukraina xóa sổ "Kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu" Trong giai đoạn trước chiến tranh Ukraina, các nước châu Âu đã gần như không có tiếng nói nào trong các « đối thoại chiến lược » với Nga. Vũ khí hạt nhân răn đe Pháp – Anh có giúp dẫn đến một thế cân bằng chiến lược mới với Nga, giúp duy trì một nền hòa bình dựa trên thỏa hiệp ? Liệu Pháp, Anh cùng các quốc gia trụ cột khác của châu Âu có vượt qua được các thách thức để xác lập được một hệ thống an ninh tập thể mới ?
Ils étaient quatre, comme les trois mousquetaires. Et eux aussi protégeaient la plus haute figure de l'État. On parle des gardes du corps du général de Gaulle. Le premier tome d'une série de bandes dessinées vient de paraître chez Casterman. Les Gorilles du Général, mis en dessin par Julien Telo, ambitionne de raconter dix années de présidence, la décennie des années 1960, par le prisme de ceux qui étaient chargés de protéger le président de la République française. Sophie Torlotin s'entretient avec le scénariste Xavier Dorison. À lire aussiLes Gorilles du Général, les cerbères et le pépère
Ils étaient quatre, comme les trois mousquetaires. Et eux aussi protégeaient la plus haute figure de l'État. On parle des gardes du corps du général de Gaulle. Le premier tome d'une série de bandes dessinées vient de paraître chez Casterman. Les Gorilles du Général, mis en dessin par Julien Telo, ambitionne de raconter dix années de présidence, la décennie des années 1960, par le prisme de ceux qui étaient chargés de protéger le président de la République française. Sophie Torlotin s'entretient avec le scénariste Xavier Dorison. À lire aussiLes Gorilles du Général, les cerbères et le pépère
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Mit Raketen mitten in Paris: Frankreich präsentiert am 14. Juli 1965 erstmals öffentlich seine Atomstreitmacht. Staatspräsident Charles de Gaulle setzt auf Abschreckung – und nationale Unabhängigkeit. Noll, Andreas www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kalenderblatt
Ce mardi François Bayrou présentera les orientations choisies par son gouvernement pour le budget 2026. Un moment forcément très attendu car le Premier ministre a d'ores et déjà annoncé que 40 milliards d'euros d'économie devront être trouvés. Pour l'instant, le mystère est total sur les intentions d'arbitrages du chef du gouvernement. Tous les partis ont été reçus ces derniers jours au ministère de l'Économie et tous sont sortis en n'ayant à peu près aucune idée de la teneur des annonces de mardi. « Logique », selon un sénateur centriste, « François Bayrou a travaillé en cercle restreint et les ministres de l'Économie et des Comptes Publics ne sont pas au courant de tout. » Interviewé sur LCI jeudi soir, François Bayrou s'est également bien gardé de toute annonce précise. À lire aussiBudget 2026 en France: la piste d'une «année blanche» sur la table Le Premier ministre compte sur l'effet de surprise : « ce 15 juillet doit être son 18 juin », ironise un élu, référence à l'appel à la résistance lancé aux Français depuis Londres par le Général de Gaulle en 1940. Mais c'est peu dire que le scepticisme règne dans la classe politique. « C'est de la communication, on ne voit pas arriver les choix drastiques nécessaires », grince un député Les Républicains. Un de ses collègues socialistes estime de son côté que François Bayrou n'est pas « structuré » et que les annonces risquent de partir dans tous les sens, si tant est qu'il en ait réellement la primeur. Emmanuel Macron en mouche du coche ? Certains élus du socle commun s'attendent à ce qu'Emmanuel Macron devance son Premier ministre. Le chef de l'État prononce ce dimanche son traditionnel discours aux armées. Et il pourrait être tenté de divulguer certaines décisions. Ce ne serait pas étonnant, juge un dirigeant socialiste, tant le président se démène depuis des mois pour affirmer son influence. Le risque est toutefois que cela affaiblisse encore le gouvernement, déjà très impopulaire. Le cabinet Bayrou est toute façon destiné à tomber lors des discussions budgétaires, estiment la plupart de nos interlocuteurs. Le gouvernement est en effet soumis à des pressions contradictoires. Trop de coupes et c'est la censure assurée venue de la gauche et de l'extrême droite, majoritaires en cas de vote commun à l'Assemblée. Pas assez, ou de nouveaux impôts et c'est l'alliance avec les Républicains qui implose. François Bayrou y croit encore « Gouverner c'est faire des choix », tempête-t-on à LR, « on ne peut pas faire plaisir à tout le monde ». LR où l'on prédit une équation quasi impossible à résoudre. « On a dit à François Bayrou qu'il ne fallait pas trop qu'il compte sur son socle commun », sourit-on à gauche. Un automne funeste donc pour François Bayrou ? À lire aussiBudget: le suspense selon Bayrou Le Premier ministre continue de croire en sa bonne étoile et en sa capacité de négociation : d'abord avec le Parti socialiste, qui lui avait permis au printemps d'éviter la censure ou avec le Rassemblement national qui avait longuement hésité à faire tomber son prédécesseur Michel Barnier l'hiver passé. Le chef du gouvernement a d'ailleurs adressé des clins d'œil appuyés au RN dans sa dernière interview. Il a ainsi relancé l'idée de scrutins législatifs à la proportionnelle, mais aussi d'une banque de la démocratie destinée à financer les partis politiques. Un peu tard toutefois pour le parti d'extrême droite, cerné par des procédures judiciaires liées à des malversations supposées concernant son fonctionnement.
Le saviez-vous ? En 1968, Miriam Makeba, la chanteuse africaine la plus célèbre au monde fait le choix de quitter les États-Unis pour s'installer à Conakry avec son révolutionnaire de mari Stokely Carmichael, le leader du mouvement Black Power. Le couple panafricain va servir la révolution socialiste de Sékou Touré ! Cette histoire aussi fascinante que méconnue est documentée par Elara Bertho, chargée de recherche au CNRS au sein du Laboratoire Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM). Historienne de la littérature, elle revisite les années 70 marquées par une extrême violence envers les noirs, que ce soit aux États-Unis ou en Afrique du Sud, mais depuis Conakry, capitale de la Guinée indépendante dirigée par Ahmed Sékou Touré depuis 1958 et son célèbre « Non » à la communauté française proposée par le Général de Gaulle. Une indépendance immédiate, en rupture avec la France, et un choix politique clair : celui du socialisme. Anticolonialiste, panafricaniste, Sékou Touré soutient les luttes de libération et accueille combattants clandestins et réfugiés politiques. Pour Stokely Carmichael, théoricien du Black Power et de la colonialité, des millions de Noirs sont justement devenus des réfugiés politiques à l'époque. « Dans le monde entier, il y a des centaines de milliers, je dirais même des millions de réfugiés politiques noirs, et nous devenons des réfugiés politiques dans le monde. Et nous n'avons absolument rien à voir avec les luttes politiques qui se déroulent, les luttes politiques des Blancs. Mais ce sont des luttes politiques blanches pour le contrôle des Noirs, et nous sommes pris au milieu. Chaque fois qu'il y a un coup d'État dans un pays africain, qui est provoqué par les forces impérialistes occidentales blanches, des milliers de Noirs doivent alors fuir. Prenons l'exemple du Congo. Au Congo, il y avait (Moïse) Tshombe, Mobutu et Lumumba. Lorsque les forces impérialistes blanches ont tué Lumumba, des dizaines de milliers de Noirs vivant au Congo ont dû fuir le pays à la recherche d'un refuge politique dans les pays environnants, affirme-t-il au micro de Hayward Henry aux USA en 1968 (Archive Afro-Marxist). Et des milliers de personnes ont dû fuir lorsque Nkrumah a été renversé, ce sont les forces blanches qui contrôlent les richesses. Ma femme (Miriam Makeba) est une réfugiée politique de son propre pays, née et élevée en Afrique du Sud. Certains envahisseurs blancs viennent expulser les Noirs de leur propre terre et leur disent qu'ils ne peuvent pas y retourner. Nous avons des milliers de réfugiés politiques d'Afrique du Sud, du Mozambique, d'Angola, de Guinée-Bissau, toute l'Afrique est inondée de réfugiés politiques noirs, et maintenant les États-Unis complotent pour déplacer ce phénomène dans les Caraïbes. Et enfin, bien sûr, vers les États-Unis.» Lors de ses différentes visites à Conakry, Miriam Makeba, infatigable militante contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud, s'est vue plusieurs fois proposer l'accueil de la Guinée. C'est ainsi qu'en 1968, après leur mariage le 29 Avril à New-York, Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael s'envolent pour Conakry et s'engagent au service de la révolution culturelle lancée par Sékou Touré… un récit aux sons de nos archives sonores et musicales ! À lire : Un couple panafricain par Elara Bertho, aux éditions ROT-BO-KRIK. À voir : Le diaporama des photos du livre. Programmation musicale : - Miriam Makeba / Kilimanjaro Live 1971 Guinée - Harry Belafonte / Give Us Our Land (Mabayeke) - Miriam Makeba / Pata Pata (Strut Records) - Miriam Makeba / Sékou Famaké (SYLLART RECORDS) - Miriam Makeba / Kadeya Deya (SYLLART RECORDS).
We feel pretty confident that most sane Andor viewers skipped right from “Who Else Knows?” (S2, E11) into the finale. Turns out, there's still a LOT to discuss in the penultimate episode of Andor ever.We spent significant time this week digging into ISB hierarchies, and how the rise and fall of ambitious Imperials has hollowed out the Empire's institutions. We dissect ISB politics and competency through lenses of race and gender. We also paint parallels between Luthen Rael and French revolutionary Charles de Gaulle, and delight in Rebel downtime.New to Growing Up Skywalker? Come join us for non-toxic Star Wars recaps from a veteran and a new fan. New episodes every Tuesday.Want more Growing Up Skywalker? This is a great time to sign up for our Patreon for bonus audio content!Timestamps:00:00:00 Who Are We?00:03:23 Plot Summary00:11:27 Ambition, Competency, And Is The ISB Crumbling From Within?00:43:44 Luthen as Charles de Gaulle?00:59:51 Bae Watch01:08:28 Closing Thoughts
durée : 00:29:10 - Avoir raison avec... - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - À la mort de Paul Valéry en 1945, de Gaulle exige des funérailles publiques, et Jean Moulin avait dit de lui qu'il aurait pu être Président. Prince des poètes, immense penseur, il s'est pourtant déposée au fil du temps une couche de poussière sur sa mémoire. Comment expliquer cet oubli injuste ? - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Benoît Peeters Écrivain, scénariste de bandes dessinées et éditeur, biographe d'Hergé
durée : 00:04:11 - Micro européen - par : Marie-Christine VALLET - Cette semaine, Micro européen s'intéresse à l'humour comme arme politique, avec Aurélie Julia, directrice de la "Revue des Deux Mondes". Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.
L'OTAN, l'Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord, a été créée en 1949 pour assurer une défense collective face à la menace soviétique. Au départ, son quartier général n'était pas du tout à Bruxelles, mais à Paris. Jusqu'en 1966, c'est dans la capitale française que se trouvait le siège de l'OTAN, plus précisément au Palais de Chaillot, puis à Porte Dauphine.Mais tout bascule avec le général de Gaulle.En 1966, le président français décide de retirer la France de la structure militaire intégrée de l'OTAN (même si elle reste membre de l'organisation politique). Il refuse que des troupes étrangères soient stationnées en France en temps de paix. Résultat : l'OTAN doit déménager… et vite.Alors pourquoi Bruxelles ? Pour trois raisons principales :Sa position géographique et diplomatiqueLa Belgique est située au cœur de l'Europe de l'Ouest, entre la France, l'Allemagne et les Pays-Bas. C'est un pays stable, neutre dans les grands conflits idéologiques du XXe siècle, et ouvertement pro-européen et pro-américain. Elle est donc un choix diplomatiquement consensuel.Sa tradition multilatéraleLa Belgique est un pays qui aime les institutions internationales : elle héberge déjà des organismes comme l'Union européenne (la Commission, le Conseil, le Parlement en partie). Installer l'OTAN à Bruxelles s'inscrit dans cette logique d'accueil.Sa réactivité et sa disponibilitéLorsqu'il a fallu trouver une nouvelle maison pour l'OTAN, la Belgique s'est montrée extrêmement coopérative. Elle a rapidement proposé un site à Evere, dans la banlieue nord-est de Bruxelles. Un bâtiment provisoire y a été construit, puis remplacé en 2017 par un tout nouveau siège ultramoderne.En résumé : si le siège de l'OTAN est à Bruxelles, c'est à la fois parce que la France l'a expulsé, et parce que la Belgique cochait toutes les bonnes cases : centrale, neutre, multilatéraliste… et efficace.Depuis, Bruxelles est devenue la capitale militaire de l'Occident, en complément de son rôle de capitale politique de l'Europe. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
durée : 00:29:01 - Avoir raison avec... - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - À la mort de Paul Valéry en 1945, de Gaulle exige des funérailles publiques, et Jean Moulin avait dit de lui qu'il aurait pu être Président. Prince des poètes, immense penseur, il s'est pourtant déposée au fil du temps une couche de poussière sur sa mémoire. Comment expliquer cet oubli injuste ? - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Benoît Peeters Écrivain, scénariste de bandes dessinées et éditeur, biographe d'Hergé
“Je vous ai compris” : ces mots célèbres, prononcés par Charles de Gaulle le 4 juin 1958 à Alger, en pleine guerre dont on ne dit alors pas le nom, résument peut-être l'attitude de l'homme du 18 juin face aux événements qui conduiront à l'indépendance de l'Algérie, proclamée en 1962. De Gaulle a-t-il compris ce qui se jouait, dès les années 1940, de l'autre côté de la Méditerranée ? On verra aujourd'hui qu'il s'est souvent montré ambigu, voire contradictoire sur ces questions que Virginie Girod évoque avec Pierre Manenti, historien du gaullisme et de la Cinquième République.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
En medio de llantos velan los restos del agente policial que protagonizó un sangriento enfrentamiento a tiros con un civil armado que también murió, en un conflicto iniciado por un turno para echar gasolina en una estación de combustibles en la avenida Charles de Gaulle.#NoticiasRNN #Policía #muerto #velatorio #tiroteo #enfrentamiento #violencia
durée : 00:10:18 - Le monde d'Elodie - par : Elodie SUIGO - Tous les jours, une personnalité s'invite dans le monde d'Élodie Suigo. Mardi 24 juin 2025, le scénariste de bande dessinée Xavier Dorison. Il publie "Les Gorilles du Général", aux éditions Casterman. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.
Tout au long de sa vie, de Gaulle entretient une relation conflictuelle avec les États-Unis d'Amérique. Kennedy est peut-être le seul président américain qu'il aura su apprécier. Mention légales : Vos données de connexion, dont votre adresse IP, sont traités par Radio Classique, responsable de traitement, sur la base de son intérêt légitime, par l'intermédiaire de son sous-traitant Ausha, à des fins de réalisation de statistiques agréées et de lutte contre la fraude. Ces données sont supprimées en temps réel pour la finalité statistique et sous cinq mois à compter de la collecte à des fins de lutte contre la fraude. Pour plus d'informations sur les traitements réalisés par Radio Classique et exercer vos droits, consultez notre Politique de confidentialité.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
L'entrée en guerre d'Israël avec l'Iran à propos de la question nucléaire ne surprendra personne. Il est par contre plus surprenant de voir un président de la République française évoquer un « droit d'Israël à se défendre » au moment où ce pays vient de lancer une attaque en brandissant le concept de « guerre préventive » dont n'importe quelle autre puissance agressive pourrait désormais se saisir. « N'est pas de Gaulle qui veut », estime notre éditorialiste Natacha Polony.Le magazine Marianne est en kiosques et en ligne chaque jeudi."Le goût de la vérité n'empêche pas de prendre parti". Albert CamusMarianne TV : https://tv.marianne.net/Marianne.net : https://www.marianne.net/ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Résistance, collaboration, attentisme… que faisaient vraiment les Français entre 1940 et 1944 ? Il y a 85 ans, l'Allemagne nazie envahissait la France. C'était le début de quatre années d'Occupation. Chaque année, le 18 juin, on commémore le message lancé depuis Londres par le général de Gaulle en 1940. Cet appel à la Résistance est devenu un symbole car beaucoup de Français aiment se souvenir que certains de leurs ancêtres ont eu le courage de dire non à l'ennemi. Mais entre 1940 et 1944, la France était en réalité dirigée par un régime autoritaire, mené par le maréchal Pétain, un ancien héros de la Première Guerre mondiale. Alors, comment vivait-on en France pendant cette période ? Est-ce que la majorité des citoyens soutenait de Gaulle et la Résistance ? Ou bien suivaient-ils Pétain et le régime de Vichy ? La réalité est bien plus complexe. Dans cet épisode, Hugo et Ingrid reviennent sur ces années sombres. Ils racontent l'invasion allemande et les réactions politiques de 1940. Ils expliquent le fonctionnement du régime de Vichy, autoritaire et antisémite. Et enfin, ils explorent les différentes attitudes des Français. Retrouvez la transcription de cet épisode sur innerfrench.com Vous avez envie de progresser avec nous ? Découvrez nos cours en ligne sur courses.innerfrench.com
Stéphane Bern raconte, en ce 18 juin, le destin méconnu d'Elisabeth de Miribel, une combattante de la France Libre qui, en tout premier, a répondu à l'appel du Général de Gaulle… pour dactylographier son célèbre discours du 18 juin 1940, qui, sans le savoir, allait entrer dans l'Histoire. Sans Élisabeth de Miribel, la France et le conflit de la Seconde Guerre mondiale auraient-ils connu la même issue ? Quels liens a-t-elle tissés avec le général de Gaulle ? Quel héritage a-t-elle laissé derrière elle ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit David Brunat, écrivain et auteur de "A la machine, Vies d'Élisabeth de Miribel" (Editions La Thébaïde) Au Coeur de l'Histoire est réalisée par Guilaume Vasseau. Rédaction en chef : Benjamin Delsol. Auteur du récit : Tony Liégois. Journaliste : Clara Leger. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Up this week : It's been another bad week for the reputation of French politicians. We'll discuss why they are so naughty, and when I say naughty I mean corrupt, rather than bed hopping.And we'll also bring you the good news that Paris and Charles de Gaulle airport will soon have a direct train link that's been centuries in the making. Although there's some bad news too given how much it's going to cost.We'll find out why France has been so successful in creating high speed trains and not so good at local rail links, why the French name police are so powerful and whether or not foreigners in France should swear like a local.Host Ben McPartland is joined by The Local France's mostly foulmouthed duo Emma Pearson and Gen Mansfield as well as the always elegantly spoken John Lichfield.Extra reading:The French baby names banned by law'It doesn't sound as vulgar': The verdict on swearing in FrenchFrench ex-president Sarkozy stripped of Legion of HonourFrench ex-PM Fillon given suspended prison sentence over wife's fake job'Rail golden age': French trains more popular than ever (despite strike threats) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stéphane Bern raconte, en ce 18 juin, le destin méconnu d'Elisabeth de Miribel, une combattante de la France Libre qui, en tout premier, a répondu à l'appel du Général de Gaulle… pour dactylographier son célèbre discours du 18 juin 1940, qui, sans le savoir, allait entrer dans l'Histoire. Sans Élisabeth de Miribel, la France et le conflit de la Seconde Guerre mondiale auraient-ils connu la même issue ? Quels liens a-t-elle tissés avec le général de Gaulle ? Quel héritage a-t-elle laissé derrière elle ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit David Brunat, écrivain et auteur de "A la machine, Vies d'Élisabeth de Miribel" (Editions La Thébaïde) Au Coeur de l'Histoire est réalisée par Guilaume Vasseau. Rédaction en chef : Benjamin Delsol. Auteur du récit : Tony Liégois. Journaliste : Clara Leger. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
durée : 01:04:25 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Philippe Garbit - Le 17 juin 1940, le Maréchal Pétain annonce qu'il faut cesser le combat. Le lendemain, depuis Londres, le général de Gaulle appelle à continuer ce combat contre l'Allemagne qui occupe la France. En 1965, Jacques Madaule raconte, en faisant appel aux témoins de l'époque, l'importance de cet appel. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie Résistant et compagnon de la Libération, écrivain, journaliste, militaire et homme politique français; Maurice Schumann Homme politique, résistant durant la seconde guerre mondiale, ancien porte-parole de la France Libre, ministre, journaliste
Founder of the Raising Capitalists Foundation and previous co-host of The Real Estate Guys Radio show, Russell Gray, joins Keith to discuss the historical and current devaluation of the U.S. dollar, its impact on investors, and the broader economic implications. Gray highlights how the significant increase in interest rates has trapped equity in properties and affected development. He explains the shift from gold-backed currency to paper money, the role of the Federal Reserve, and the impact of the Bretton Woods Agreement. Gray emphasizes the importance of understanding macroeconomic trends and advocates for Main Street capitalism to decentralize power and promote productivity. He also criticizes the idea of housing as a human right, arguing it leads to inflation and shortages. Resources: Connect with Russell Gray to learn more about his "Raising Capitalists" project and his plans for a new show. Follow up with Russell Gray to get a copy of the Beardsley Rummel speech transcript from 1946. follow@russellgray.com Show Notes: GetRichEducation.com/558 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREinvestmentcoach.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments. You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review”. For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript: Automatically Transcribed With Otter.ai Keith Weinhold 0:01 Welcome to GRE. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, what's the real backstory on why we have this thing called the dollar? Why it keeps getting debased? What you can do about it and when the dollar will die? It's a lesson in monetary history. And our distinguished guest is a familiar voice that you haven't heard in a while. Today on get rich education. Mid south home buyers, I mean, they're total pros, with over two decades as the nation's highest rated turnkey provider, their empathetic property managers use your ROI as their North Star. So it's no wonder that smart investors just keep lining up to get their completely renovated income properties like it's the newest iPhone. They're headquartered in Memphis and have globally attractive cash flows and A plus rating with a better business bureau and now over 5000 houses renovated. There's zero markup on maintenance. Let that sink in, and they average a 98.9% occupancy rate, while their average renter stays more than three and a half years. Every home they offer has brand new components, a bumper to bumper, one year warranty, new 30 year roofs. And wait for it, a high quality renter. Remember that part and in an astounding price range, 100 to 180k I've personally toured their office and their properties in person in Memphis, get to know Mid South. Enjoy cash flow from day one. Start yourself right now at mid southhomebuyers.com that's mid south homebuyers.com Russell Gray 1:54 You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education. Keith Weinhold 2:10 Welcome to GRE from St John's Newfoundland to St Augustine, Florida and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith weinholden. You are inside get rich education. It's 2025. The real estate market is changing. We'll get into that in future. Weeks today. Over the past 100 years plus, we've gone from sound money to Monopoly money, and we're talking about America's currency collapse. What comes next and how it affects you as both an investor and a citizen. I'd like to welcome in longtime friend of the show and someone that I've personally learned from over the years, because he's a brilliant teacher, real estate investors probably haven't heard his voice as much lately, because until last year, he had been the co host of the terrific real estate guys radio show for nearly 20 years. Before we're done today, you'll learn more about what he's doing now, as he runs the Main Street capitalist platform and is also founder of the raising capitalists foundation. Hey, it's been a few years. Welcome back to GRE Russell Gray. Russell Gray 3:19 yeah, it's fun. I actually think it's been maybe 10 years when I think about it, I remember I was at a little resort in Mexico recording with you, I think in the gym. It was just audio back then, no video. Keith Weinhold 3:24 Yeah, I remember we're trying to get the audio right. Then I think you've been here more recently than 10 years ago. But yeah, now there's this video component. I actually have to sit up straight and comb my hair. It's ridiculous. Well, Russ, you're also a buff of monetary history. And before we discuss that, talk about the state of the real estate market today, just briefly, from your vantage point. Russell Gray 1 3:55 I think the big story, and I'm probably not telling anybody anything they don't know, but the interest rate hike cycle that we went through this last round was quite a bit more substantial, I think, than a lot of people really appreciated, you know. And I started talking about that many years ago, because when you hit the zero bound and you have 6,7,8, years of interest rates below half a point, the change when they started that interest rate cycle from point two, 525 basis points all the way up to five and a quarter? That's a 20x move. And people might say, well, oh, you know, I go back to what Paul Volcker did way back in the day, when he took interest rates from eight or nine to 18. That was only a little bit more than double. Double is a far cry from 20x so we've never seen anything like that. Part of the fallout of that, as you know, is a lot of people wisely, and I was on the front end of cheerleading This is go get those loans refinanced and lock in that cheap money for as long as possible, because a loan will actually become an asset. The problem is, when you do that, you're kind of married to that property. Now it's not quite as bad. As being upside down in a property and you can't get out of it, but it's really hard to walk away from a two or 3% loan in a Six 7% market, because you really can't take your same payment and end up getting more house. And so that equity is kind of a little bit trapped, and that creates some opportunities, but I think that's been the big story, and then kind of the byproduct of the story. Second tier of the story was the impact it had on development, because it made it a lot harder for developers to develop, because their cost of funds and everything in that supply chain, food chain, you marry that to the 2020, COVID Supply Chain lockdown and that disruption, which, you know, you don't shut an economy down and just flick a switch and have it come back on. And so there's all of that. And then the third thing is just this tremendous uncertainty everybody has, because we just went from one extreme to another. And I think people, you know, they don't want to, like, rock the boat, they're going to kind of stay status quo for a little bit, whether they're businesses, whether they're homeowners, whether they're anybody out there that's thinking about moving them, unless life forces you to do it, you're going to try to stay status quo until things calm down. And I don't know how close we are to things calming down. Keith Weinhold 6:13 One word I use is normalized. Both the 30 year fixed rate mortgage and the Fed funds rate are pretty close to their long term historic average. It just doesn't feel that way, because it was that rate of increase in 2022 that caught a lot of people off guard, like you touched on Well, Russ, now that we've talked about the present day, let's go back in time, and then we'll slowly bring things up to the present day. The dollar is troubled. It's worth perhaps 3% of what it was 100 years ago, but it's still around since it was established in the Coinage Act of 1792 and it's still the world reserve currency. In fact, only three currencies have survived longer than the dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. So talk to us about this really relentless debasement of the dollar over time, including the creation of the Fed and the Bretton Woods Agreement and all that. Russell Gray 7:09 That's a big story, as you know, and I always like to try to break it down a little bit. One of my specialties I'd like to believe, is I speak macro and I speak Main Street. And so when I try to break macroeconomics down, I start out with, why do I even care? I mean, if I'm a main street investor, why do I even care? In 2008 as you know, is a wipeout for me. Why? Because I didn't think anything had happened in the macro I didn't think Wall Street bond market. I didn't think that affected me. One thing I really cared about was interest rates. And I had a cursory interest in the bond market. We just try to figure out where interest rates were going. But for the most part, I thought, as a main street real estate investor, I was 100% insulated. I couldn't have been more wrong, because it really does matter, because the value of the dollar, in other words, the purchasing power of the dollar, and usually you refer to that as inflation, right? If inflation is there, the dollar is losing its purchasing power, and so the higher the inflation rate, the faster you're losing that purchasing power. And you might say, well, maybe that matters to me. Maybe it does. But the people who make the money available to the mortgage community, right to the real estate community to borrow that comes out of the bond market. And so when people go to buy a bond, which is an IOU, they're going to get paid back in the currency that they lent in, in this case, dollars. And if they know, if they're making a long term investment in a long term bond, and they're going to get paid back in dollars, they're going to be worth a whole lot less when they get them back. One of the things they're going to want is compensation for that time risk, and that's called higher interest rates. Okay, so now, if you're a main street investor, and higher interest rates impact you, now you understand why you want to pay attention. Okay, so let's just start with that. And so once you understand that the currency is a derivative of money, and money used to be you mentioned the Coinage Act Keith money, which is gold, used to be synonymous with the dollar. The dollar was only a unit of measure of gold, 1/20 of an ounce. It was a unit of measure. So it's like, the way I teach people is, like, if you had a gallon of milk and you traded, I'm a farmer, and I had a lot of milk, and so everybody decided they were going to use gallons of milk as their currency. Hey, where there's a lot of gallons of milk. He's got a big refrigerator. We'll just trade gallons of milk. Hey, Keith, I really like your beef. I you know, will you sell me some, a side of beef, and I'll give you, you know, 100 gallons of milk, you know, like, Oh, that's great. Well, I can't drink all this milk, so I'm going to leave the milk on deposit at the dairy, and then later on, when I decide I want a suit of clothes, I'll say, well, that's 10 gallons of milk. So I'll give the guy 10 gallons of milk. So I just give him a coupon, a claim, a piece of paper for that gallon of milk, or 20 gallons of milk, and he can go to the dairy and pick it up, right? And so that's kind of the way the monetary system evolved, except it wasn't milk, it was gold. So now you got the dollar. Well, after a while, nobody's going to get the milk. They don't care about the milk. And so now. Now, instead of just saying, I'll give you a gallon of milk, you just say, well, I'll give you a gallon. And somebody says, Okay, that's great. I'll take a gallon. They never opened the jug up. They never realized the jug is empty. They're just trading these empty jugs that used to have milk in them. Well, that's what the paper dollar is today. It went from being a gold certificate payable to bearer on demand, a certain amount of gold, a $20 gold certificate, what looks exactly like a $20 FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE. Today they look exactly the same, except one says FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, which is an IOU backed by nothing, and the other one said gold certificate, which was payable to bearer on demand, real money. So my point is, is he got money which is a derivative of the productivity, the beef, the soot, the milk, whatever, right? That's the real capital. The real capital is the goods and services we all want. Money is where we store the value of whatever it is we created until we want to trade it for something somebody else created later. And it used to be money and currency were one in the same, but now we've separated that. So now all we do is trade empty gallons, which are empty pieces of paper, and that's currency. So those are derivatives, and the last derivative of that chain is credit. And you had Richard Duncan on your show more than once, and he is famous for kind of having this term. We don't normally have capitalism. We have creditism, right? Everything is credit. Everything is claims on wealth, but it's not real wealth, and it's just when we look at what's going on with our current administration and the drive to become a productive rather than a financialized society, again, as part of this uncertainty that everybody has. Because this is not just a subtle little adjustment on the same course. This is like, No, we're we're going down a completely different path. But fundamentally, your system operates on this currency that is flowing through it, like the blood flowing through your body. And if the blood is bad, your body's sick. And right now, our currency is bad, and so it creates problems, not just for us, but all around the world. And now we're exacerbating that. And I'm not saying it's bad. In fact, I think it's actually it's actually good, but change is what it is, right? I mean, it can be really good to go to the gym and work out before we started recording, you talked about your commitment to fitness, and that if you stop working out, you get unfit, and it's hard to start up again. Well, we've allowed our economy to get very unfit. Now we're trying to get fit again, and it's going to be painful. We're going to be sore, but if we stick with it, I think we can actually kind of save this thing. So I don't know what that's going to mean for the dollar ultimately, or if we end up going to something else, but right now, to your point, the dollar is definitely the big dog still, but I think it's probably even more under attack today than it's ever been, and so it's just something I think every Main Street investor needs to pay attention to. Keith Weinhold 12:46 And it was really that 1913 creation of the Fed, where the Fed's mandates really didn't begin to take effect until 1914 that accelerated this slide in the dollar. Prior to that, it was really just periods of war, like, for example, the Civil War, where we had inflation rise, but then after wars abated, the dollar's strength returned, but that ceased to happen last century. Russell Gray 13:11 I think there's a much bigger story there. So when we founded the country, we established legal money in the Coinage Act of 1792 we got gold and silver and a specific unit of measure of gold, a specific unit, measure of silver was $1 and that's what money was constitutionally. Alexander Hamilton advocated for the first central bank and got it, but it was issued by Charter, which meant that it was operated by the permission of the Congress. It wasn't institutionalized. It wasn't embedded in the Constitution. It was just something that was granted, like a license. You have a charter to be able to run a bank. When that initial charter came up for renewal, Congress goes, now we're not going to renew it. Well, of course, that made the bankers really upset, because bankers have a pretty good gig, right? They get to just loan people money. They don't have to do any real work, and then they make money on just kind of arbitraging, you know, other people's money. Savers put their money in, and they borrowed the money out, and then they with fractional reserve, they're able to magnify that. So it's, it's kind of a cool gig. And so what happened? Then he had the first central bank, so then they got the second central bank, and the second central bank was also issued by charter this time when it came up for renewal, Congress goes, Yeah, let's renew it, right? Because the bankers knew we got to go buy a few congressmen if we want to keep this thing going. But President Andrew Jackson said, No, not going to happen. And it was a big battle. Is a famous quote of him just calling these bankers a brood of vipers. And I'm going to put you down. And God help me, I will, right? I mean, it was like intense fact, I do believe he got shot at one point. I think he died from lead poisoning, because he never got the bullet out. So, you know, when you go to up against the bankers, it's not pretty, but he succeeded. He was the last president that paid off all the debt, balanced budget, paid off all the debt, and we got kind of back on sound money. Well, then a little while later, said, Okay, we're going to need, like, something major, and this would. I should put on. I got my, this is my hat, right now, I'll kind of put it on. This is my, my tin foil hat. Okay? And so I put this on when I kind of go down the rabbit trail a little bit. No, I'm not saying this is what happened, but it wouldn't surprise me, right? Because I know that war is profitable, and so sometimes, you know, your comment was, hey, there's the bank, and then there was, you know, the war, or there's the war, then there's a bank, which comes first the chicken or the egg. I think there's an article where Henry Ford and Thomas Edison went to Congress. I think it was December. The article was published New York Tribune, December 4. I think 1921 you can look it up, New York Tribune, front page article Keith Weinhold 15:38 fo those of you in the audio only. Russ started donning a tin foil looking hat here about one minute ago. Russell Gray 15:45 I did, yeah, so I put it on. Just so fair warning. You know, I may go a little conspiratorial, but the reason I do that is I just, I think we've seen enough, just in current, modern history and politics, in the age of AI and software and freedom of speech and new media, there's a lot of weird stuff going on out there, but a lot of stuff that we thought was really weird a little while ago has turned out to be more true than we thought. When you look back in history, and you kind of read the official narrative and you wonder, you kind of read between the lines. You go, oh, maybe some stuff went on here. So anyway, the allegation that Ford made, smart guy, Thomas Edison, smart guy. And they go to Congress, and they go, Hey, we need to get the gold out of the banker's hands, because gold is money, and we need money not to revolve around gold, because the bankers control gold. They control the money, and they make profits, his words, not mine, by starting wars, because he was very upset about World War One, which happened. We got involved right after Fed gets formed in 1913 World War One starts in 1914 the United States sits off in the background and sells everybody, everything. It collects a bunch of gold, and then enters at the end and ends it all. And that big influx created the roaring 20s, as we all know, which ended big boom to big bust. And that cycle, which then a crisis that created, potentially a argument for why the government should have more control, right? So you kind of go down this path. So we ended up in 1865 with President Lincoln suppressing states rights and eventually creating an unconstitutional income tax and then creating an unconstitutional currency. That's what Abraham Lincoln did. And then on the back end of that, you know, it didn't end well for him, and I don't know why, but all I know is that we had a financial crisis in 1907 and the solution to that was the Aldrich plan, which was basically a monopoly on money. It's called a money trust. And Charles Lindbergh, SR was railing against it, as were many people at the time, going, No, this is terrible. So they renamed the Aldrich plan the Federal Reserve Act. And instead of going for a bank charter, they went for a constitutional amendment, and they got it in the 16th Amendment, and that's where we got the IRS. That's where we got the income tax, which was only supposed to be 7% only affect like the top one or 2% of earners, right? And that's where we got, you know, the Federal Reserve. That's where all that was born. Since that happened, to your point, the dollar has been on with a slight little rise up in the 20s, which, you know, there's a whole thing about whether that caused the crash or not. But at the end of the day, if you go look at St Louis Fed, which you go look at all the time, and you just look at the long term trend of the dollar, it's terrible. And the barometer, that's gold, right? $20 of gold in 1913 and 1933 and then 42 in 1971 or two, whatever it was, three, and then eventually as high as 850 but at the turn of the century, this century, it was $250 so at $2,500 it would have lost 90% in the 21st Century. The dollars lost 90% in the 21st Century, just to 2500 that's profound to go. That's right, it already lost more than 90% from $20 to 250 so it lost 90% and then 90% of the 10% that was left. And that's where we're at. We're worse than that. Today, no currency, as far as I understand, I've been told this. Haven't done the homework, but it's my understanding, no currency in the history of the world has ever survived that kind of debasement. So I think a lot of people who are watching are like, okay, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. And then the big question is, is when that when comes? What does the transition look like? What rises in its place? And then you look at things like a central bank digital currency, which is not like Bitcoin, it's not a crypto, it's a centrally controlled currency run by the central bank. If we get that, I would argue that's not good for privacy and security. Could be Bitcoin would be better. I would argue, could go back to gold backing, which I would say is better than what we have, or we could get something nobody's even thought of. I don't know. We don't know, but I do think we're at the end of the life cycle. Historically, all things being equal. And I think all the indication with a big run up of gold, gold is screaming something's broken. It's just screaming it right now, not just because the price is up, but who's buying it. It's just central banks. Keith Weinhold 20:12 Central banks are doing most of the buying, right? It's not individual investors going to a coin shop. So that's really screaming, telling you that people are concerned. People are losing their faith in giving loans to the United States for sure. And Russ, as we talk about gold, and it's important link to the dollar over time, you mentioned how they wanted it, to get it out of the bank's hands for a while. Of course, there was also a period of time where it was illegal for Americans to own gold. And then we had this Bretton Woods Agreement, which was really important as well, where we ended up violating promises that had to do with gold again. So can you speak to us some more about that? Because a lot of people just don't understand what happened at Bretton Woods. Russell Gray 20:56 What happened is we had the big crash in 1929 and the net result of that was, in 1933 we got executive order 6102 In fact, I have a picture of it framed, and that was in the wake of that in 1933 and so what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in signing that document, which was empowered by a previous act of Congress, basically let him confiscate all The money. It'd be like right now if, right now, you know, President Trump signed an executive order and said, You have to take all your cash, every all the cash that you have out of your wallet. You have to send it all, take it into the bank, and they're going to give you a Chuck E Cheese token, right? And if you don't do it, if you do it, it's a $500,000 fine in 10 years in prison. Right? Back then it was a $10,000 fine, which was twice the price of the average Home huge fine, plus jail time. That's how severe it was, okay? So they confiscated all the money. That happened in 33 okay? Now we go off to war, and we enter the war late again. And so we have the big manufacturing operation. We're selling munitions and all kinds of supplies to everybody, all over the world, right? And we're just raking the gold and 20,000 tons of gold. We got all the gold. We got the biggest army now, we got the biggest bomb, we got the biggest economy. We got the strongest balance sheet. Well, I mean, you know, we went into debt for the war, but, I mean, we had a lot of gold. So now everybody else is decimated. We're the big dog. Everybody knows we're the big dog. Nine states shows up in New Hampshire Bretton Woods, and they have this big meeting with the world, and they say, Hey guys, new sheriff in town. Britain used to be the world's reserve currency, but today we're going to be the world's reserve currency. And so this was the new setup. But it's okay. It's okay because our dollar is as good as gold. It's backed by gold, and so anytime you want foreign nations, you can just bring your dollars to us and we'll give you the gold, no problem. And everyone's like, okay, great. What are you going to say? Right? You got the big bomb, you got the big army. Everybody needs you for everything to live like you're not going to say no. So they said, Yes, of course, the United States immediately. I've got a speech that a guy named Beardsley Rummel did. Have you ever heard me talk about this before? Keith, No, I've never heard about this. So Beardsley Rummel was the New York Fed chair when all this was happening. And so he gave a speech to the American Bar Association in 1945 and I got a transcript of it, a PDF transcript of it from 1946 and basically he goes, Look, income taxes are obsolete. We don't need income tax anymore because we can print money, because we're off the gold standard and we have no accountability. We just admitted it, just totally admitted it, and said the only reason we have income tax is to manipulate behavior, is to redistribute wealth, is to force people to do what we want them to do, punish things and reward others, right? Just set it plain language. I have a transcript of the speech. You can get a copy of you send an email to Rummel R U, M, L@mainstreetcapitalist.com I'll get it to you. So it's really, really interesting. So he admitted it. So we went along in the 40s and the 50s, and, you know, we had the only big manufacturing you know, because everybody else is still recovering from the war. Everything been bombed to smithereens, and we're spending money and doing all kinds of stuff. And having the 50s, it was great, right, right up until the mid 60s. So the mid 60s, it's like, Okay, we got a problem. And Charles de Gaulle, who was the president of France at the time, went to a meeting. And there's a YouTube video, but you can see it, he basically told the world, hey, I don't think the United States is doing a good job managing this world's reserve currency. I don't think they've got the gold. I think they printed too much money. I think that we should start to go redeem our dollars and get the gold. That was pretty forward thinking. And he created a run on the bank. And at the same time, we passed the Coinage Act in 1965 and took all the silver out of the people's money. So we took the gold in 33 and then we took the silver in 65 right? Because we got Vietnam and the Great Society, welfare, all these things were going on in the 60s. We're just going broke. Meanwhile, our gold supply went from 20,000 tons down to eight and Richard. Nixon is like, whoa, time out. Like, this is bad. And so we had inflation in 1970 August 15, 1971 year before August 15, 1971 1970 Nixon writes an executive order and freezes all prices and all wages. It became illegal by presidential edict for a private business to give their employee a raise or to raise their prices to the customers. Keith Weinhold 25:30 It's almost if that could happen price in theUnited States of America, right? Russell Gray 25:36 And inflation was 4.4% and it was a national emergency like today. I mean, you know, a few years ago, like three or four years ago, we if we could get it down 4.4% it'd be Holly. I'd be like a celebration. That was bad. And so that's what happened. So a year later, that didn't work. It was a 90 day thing. It was a disaster. And so in a year later, August 15, 1971 Nixon came on live TV after Gunsmoke. I think it was, and I was old enough I'm watching TV on a Sunday night I watched it. Wow. So I live, that's how old I am. So it's a lot of this history, not the Bretton Woods stuff, but from like 1960 2,3,4, forward. I remember I was there. Keith Weinhold 26:13 Yeah, that you remember the whole Nixon address on television. We should say it for the listener that doesn't know. Basically the announcement Nixon made, he said, was a temporary measure, is that foreign nations can no longer redeem their dollars for gold. He broke the promise that was made at Bretton Woods in about 1945 Russell Gray 26:32 Yeah. And then gold went from $42 up to 850 and a whole series of events that have led to where we're at today were put in place to cover up the fact that the dollar was failing. We had climate emergency. We were headed towards the next global Ice Age. We had an existential threat in two different diseases that hit one right after the other. First one was the h1 n1 flu, swine flu, and then the next thing was AIDS. And so we had existential pandemic, two of them. We also had a oil shortage crisis. We were going to run out of fossil fuel by the year 2000 we had to do all kinds of very public, visible, visceral things that we would all see. You could only buy gas odd even days, like, if your license plate ended in an odd number, you could go on these days, and if it ended on an even number, you could go on the other days. And so we had that. We lowered our national speed limit down to 55 miles an hour. We created the EPA and all these different agencies under Jimmy Carter to try to regulate and manage all of this crisis. Prior to that, Nixon sent Kissinger over to China, and we opened up trade relations. And we'd been in Vietnam to protect the world from communism because it was so horrible. And then in the wake of that, we go over to Communist China, Chairman Mao and open up trade relations. Why we needed access to their cheap labor to suck up all the inflation. And we went over to the Saudis, and we cut the petro dollar deal. Why? Because we needed the float. We needed some place for all these excess dollars that we had created to get sucked up. And so they got sucked up in trading the largest commodity in the world, energy. And the deal was, hey, Saudis, here's the deal. You like your kingdom? Well, we got the big bomb. We got the big army. You're going to rule the roost in the in the Middle East, and we'll protect you. All you got to do is make sure you sell all your oil in dollars and dollars only. And they're like, Well, what if we're selling oil to China, or what if we're selling oil to Japan? Can they pay in yen? Nope, they got to sell yen. Buy dollars. Well, what do we do with all these dollars? Buy our treasuries. Okay, so what if I got this? Yeah, and so that was the petrodollar system. And the world looked at everything went on, and the world is like, Hmm, the United States coming back to Europe, and Charles de Gaulle, they're like, the United States is not handling this whole dollar thing real well. We need an alternative. What if all of us independent nations in Europe got together and created a common currency? We don't want to be like one country, like the United States, but we want to be like an economic union. So let's create a current let's call it the euro. And they started that process in the 70s, but they didn't get it done till 99 and so they get it done in 99 as soon as they get it done, this guy named Saddam Hussein goes, Hey, I'm now the big dog here. I got the fourth largest army in the world. I'm here in, you know, big oil producing nation. Let's trade in the euro. Let's get off the dollar. Let's do oil in the euro. And he's gone. I'm not sure I should put my hat back on. I'm not sure, but somehow we went into Afghanistan and took a hard left and took this guy out. Keith Weinhold 29:44 Some credence to this. Yes, yeah, so. But with that said, Russell Gray 29:47 you know, we ended up with the Euro taking about 20% of the global trade market from the United States, which is about where it sits today. And the United States used to be up over 80% and now we're down below 60% still. The Big Dog by triple and the euro is not in a position to supplant the US, but I think China, whose claim to fame is looking at other people's technology and models and copying it, looked at what the United States did to become the dominant economic force, and I think they've systematically been copying it. I wrote a report on this way back in 2013 when I started really paying attention to it and began to chronicle all the things that they were doing, this big D dollarization movement that I think still has legs. It's the BRICS movement. It's all the central banks buying gold. It's the bilateral trade agreements where people are doing business outside the dollar. There's been not just that, but also putting together the infrastructure, right? The Asian Infrastructure Bank is an alternative to the IMF looking, if you have you read Confessions of an economic hitman. No. Okay, so this is a guy that used to work in the government, I think, CIA or something, and he would go down and he'd cut deals with leaders of countries to get them to borrow from the United States to put in key infrastructure so they could trade with the US. And then, of course, if they defaulted, then the US owned that in the infrastructure. You can look it up. His name is Perkins, right. Look it up confessions of economic hit now, but you see China doing the same thing. China's got their Belt and Road Initiative. And you go through, and if you want to trade with China on that route, you have traded, you're gonna have to have infrastructure. You can eat ports. You're gonna need terminals for distribution. But you, Oh, you don't have the money. We'll loan it to you, and we'll loan it to you and you want. Now we're creating demand for you want, and we also are enslaving borrower servant to the lender. We're beginning to enslave these other nations under the guise of helping them by financing their growth so they can do business with us. It's the same thing the United States did and Shanghai Gold Exchange, as opposed to the London Bullion exchange. So all of the key pieces of infrastructure that were put in place to facilitate Western hegemony in the financial markets the Chinese have been systematically putting in place with bricks, and so there's a reason we're in this big trade war right now. We recognize that they had started to get in a position where they were actually a real threat, and we got to cut their legs out from underneath them before they get any stronger. Again, I should put my hat back on. Nobody's calling me up and telling me, I'm just reading between the lines. Sure, Keith Weinhold 32:23 there certainly are more competitors to the dollar now. 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Get rich education with Keith Weinhold, don't quit your Daydream. Keith Weinhold 34:52 Welcome back to get rich education. We're talking with the main street capitalists Russell gray about this long term debasement of the dollar. It's an. Inevitable. It's one of the things we actually can forecast with pretty good predictability that the dollar will continue to debase. It's one of the few almost guarantees that we have in investing. So we can think about how we want to play that Russ one thing I wonder about is, did we have to completely de peg the dollar from gold? Couldn't we have just diluted it where we could instead say, Well, hey, now, instead of just completely depegging the dollar from gold, we could say, well, now it takes 10 times as many dollars as it used to to redeem it for an ounce of gold. Did it make it more powerful that we just completely de pegged it 100% Russell Gray 35:36 it would disempower the monopoly. Right? In other words, I think that the thing from the very beginning, was scripted to disconnect from the accountability of gold, which is what sound money advocates want. They want some form of independent Accountability. Gold is like an audit to a financial system. If you're the bankers and you're running the program, the last thing in the world you want is a gold standard, because it limits your ability to print money out of thin air and profit from that. So I don't think the people who are behind all of this are, in no way, shape or form, interested in doing anything that's going to limit their power or hold them accountable. They want just the opposite. I think if they could wave a magic wand and pick their solution to the problem, it would be central bank digital currency, which would give them ultimate control. Yeah. And it wouldn't surprise me if we maybe, perhaps, were on a path where some crises were going to converge, whether it's opportunistic, meaning that the crisis happened on its own, and quote Rahm Emanuel and whoever he was quoting, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste, and you're just opportunistic, or, you know, put the conspiracy theory hat on, and maybe these crises get created in order to facilitate the power grab. I don't know. It really doesn't matter what the motives are or how it happens at the end of the day, it's what happens. It happened in 33 it happened in 60. In 71 it's what happens. And so it's been a systematic de pegging of any form of accountability. I mean, we used to have a budget ceiling. We used to talk about now it's just like, it's routine. You blow right through it, right, right. There's you balance. I mean, when's the last time you even had a budget? Less, less, you know, much less anything that looked like a valid balanced budget amendment. So I think there's just no accountability other than the voting booth. And, you know, I think maybe you could make the argument that whether you like Trump or not, the public's apparent embrace of him, show you that the main street and have a lot of faith in Main Street. I think Main Street is like, you know what? This is broken. I don't know what's how to fix it, but somebody just needs to go in and just tear this thing down and figure out a new plant. Because I think if you anybody paying attention, knows that this perpetual debasement, which is kind of the theme of the show is it creates haves and have nots. Guys like you who understand how to use real estate to short the dollar, especially when you marry it to gold, which is one of my favorite strategies to double short the dollar, can really magnify the power of inflation to pull more wealth onto your balance sheet. Problem is the people who aren't on that side of the coin are on the other side of the coin, and so the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Well, the first order of business in a system we can't control is help as many people be on the rich get richer. That's why we had the get rich show, right? Let's help other people get rich. Because if I'm the only rich guy in the room, all the guns are pointed at me, right? I wanted everybody as rich as possible. I think Trump and Kiyosaki wrote about that in their book. Why we want you to be rich, right? When everybody's prospering, it's it's better, it's safer, you have people to trade with and whatnot, but we have eviscerated the middle class because industry has had to go access cheap labor markets in order to compensate for this inflation. And you know, you talk about the Fed mandate, which is 2% inflation, price inflation, 2% so if you say something that costs $1 today, a year from now, is going to cost $1 too, you think, well, maybe that's not that bad. But here's the problem, the natural progression of Business and Technology is to lower the cost, right? So you have something cost $1 today, and because somebody's using AI and internet and automation and robots and all this technology, right? And the cost, they could really sell it for 80 cents. And so the Fed looks at and goes, Let's inflate to $1.02 that's not two cents of inflation. That's 22 cents of inflation. And so there's hidden inflation. The benefits of the gains in productivity don't show up in the CPI, but it's like deferred maintenance on an apartment building. You can make your cash flow look great if you're not setting anything aside for the inevitable day when that roof is going to go out and that parking lot is going to need to be repaved, right? And you don't know how far out you are until you get there and you're like, wow, I'm really short, and I think that we have been experiencing for decades. The theft of the benefit of our productivity gains, and we're not just a little bit out of position. We're way out of position. That's Keith Weinhold 40:07 a great point. Like I had said earlier, imagine what the rate of inflation would be if we hadn't outsourced so much of our labor and productivity to low cost China. And then imagine what the rate of inflation would be as well, if you would factor in all of this increased productivity and efficiency, the natural tendencies of which are to make prices go lower as society gets more productive, but instead they've gone higher. So when you adjust for some of these factors, you just can't imagine what the true debased purchasing power of the dollar is. It's been happening for a long time. It's inevitable that it's going to continue to happen in the future. So this has been a great chat about the history and us understanding what the powers that be have done to debase our dollar. It's only at what rate we don't know. Russ, tell us more about what you're doing today. You're really out there more as a champion for Main Street in capitalism. Russell Gray 41:04 I mean, 20 years with Robert and the real estate guys, and it was fantastic. I loved it. I went through a lot, obviously, in 2008 and that changed me a little bit. Took me from kind of being a blocking and tackling, here's how you do real estate, and to really understanding macro and going, you know, it doesn't matter. You can do like I did, and you build this big collection. Big collection of properties and you lose it all in a moment because you don't understand macro. So I said, Okay, I want to champion that cause. And so we did that. And then we saw in the 2012 JOBS Act, the opportunity for capital raisers to go mainstream and advertise for credit investors. And I wrote a report then called the new law breaks Wall Street monopoly. And I felt like that was going to be a huge opportunity, and we pioneered that. But then after my late wife died, and I had a chance to spend some time alone during COVID, and I thought, life is short. What do I really want to accomplish before I go? And then I began looking at what was going on in the world. I see now a couple of things that are both opportunities and challenges or causes to be championed. And one is the mega trend that I believe the world is going you know, some people call it a fourth turning whatever. I don't consider that kind of we have to fall off a cliff as Destiny type of thing to be like cast in stone. But what I do see is that people are sick and tired of monopolies. We're sick and tired of big tech, we're sick and tired of big media, we're sick and tired of big government. We're sick and tired of big corporations, we don't want it, and big banks, right? So you got the rise of Bitcoin, you got people trying to get out from underneath the Western hegemony, as we've been talking about decentralization of everything. Our country was founded on the concept of decentralization, and so people don't understand that, right? It used to be everything was centralized. All powers in the king. Real Estate meant royal property. That's what real estate it's not like real asset, like tangible it's royal estate. It's royal property. Everything belonged to the king, and you just got to work it like a serf. And then you got to keep 75% in your produce, and you sent 25% you sent 25% through all the landlords, the land barons, and all the people in the hierarchy that fed on running things for the king, but you didn't own anything. Our founder set that on, turn that upside down, and said, No, no, no, no, no, it's not the king that's sovereign. It's the individual. The individual is sovereign. It isn't the monarchy, it's the individual states. And so we're going to bring the government, small. The central government small has only got a couple of obligations, like protect the borders, facilitate interstate commerce, and let's just have one common currency so that we can do business together. Other than that, like, the state's just going to run the show. Of course, Lincoln kind of blew that up, and it's gotten a lot worse after FDR, so I feel like we're under this big decentralization movement, and I think Main Street capitalism is the manifestation of that. If you want to decentralize capitalism, the gig economy, if you want to be a guy like you, and you can run your whole business off your laptop with a microphone and a camera, you know, in today's day and age with technology, people have tasted the freedom of decentralization. So I think the rise of the entrepreneur, I think the ability to go build a real asset portfolio and get out of the casinos of Wall Street. I think right now, if we are successful in bringing back these huge amounts of investment, Trump's already announced like two and a half or $3 trillion of investment, people are complaining, oh, the world is selling us. Well, they're selling stocks and they're selling but they're putting the money actually into creating businesses here in the United States that's going to create that primary driver, as you well know, in real estate, that's going to create the secondary and tertiary businesses, and the properties they're going to use all kinds of Main Street opportunity are going to grow around that. I lived in Silicon Valley, when a company would get funded, it wasn't just a company that prospered, it was everything around that company, right? All these companies. I remember when Apple started. I remember when Hewlett Packard, it was big, but it got a lot bigger, right there. I watched all that happen in Silicon Valley. I think that's going to happen again. I think we're at the front end of that. And so that's super exciting. Wave. The second thing that is super important is this raising capitalist project. And the reason I'm doing it is because if we don't train our next generation in the principles of capitalism and the freedom that it how it decentralizes Their personal economy, and they get excited about Bitcoin, but that's not productive. I'm not putting it down. I'm just saying it's not productive. You have to be productive. You want to have a decentralized currency. Yes, you want to decentralize productivity. That's Main Street capitalism. If kids who never get a chance to be in the productive economy get to vote at 1819, 2021, 22 before they've ever earned a paycheck, before they have any idea, never run a business. Somebody tells them, hey, those guys that have all that money and property, they cheated. It's not fair. We need to take from them. We need to limit them, not thinking, Oh, well, if I do that, when I get to be there, that what I'm voting for is going to get on me. Right now, Keith, there are kids in ninth grade who are going to vote for your next president, right? Keith Weinhold 45:56 And they think capitalism is evil. This is part of what you're doing with the raising capitalists project, helping younger people think differently. Russ, I have one last thing to ask you. This has to do with the capitalism that you're championing on your platforms now. And real estate, I continue to see sometimes I get comments on my YouTube channel, especially maybe it's more and more people increasingly saying, Hey, I think housing should be a human right. So talk to us about that. And maybe it's interesting, Russ, if I take the other side of it and play devil's advocate, people who think housing is a human right, they say something like, the idea is that housing, you know, it's a fundamental need, just like food and clean water and health care are without stable housing. It's incredibly hard for a person to access opportunities like work and education or health care or participate meaningfully in society at all. So government ought to provide housing for everybody. What are your thoughts there? Russell Gray 46:54 Well, it's inherently inflationary, which is the root cause of the entire problem. So anytime you create consumption without production, you're going to have more consumers than producers, and so you're going to have more competition for those goods. The net, net truth of what happens in that scenario are shortages everywhere. Every civilization that's ever tried any form of system where people just get things for free because they need them, end up with shortages in poverty. It doesn't lift everybody. It ruins everything. I mean, that's not conjecture. That's history, and so that's just the way it works. And if you just were to land somebody on a desert island and you had an economy of one, they're going to learn really quick the basic principles of capitalism, which is production always precedes consumption, always 100% of the time, right? If you're there on that desert island and you don't hunt fish or gather, you don't eat, right? You don't get it because, oh, it's a human right to have food. Nope, it's a human right to have the right to go get food. Otherwise, you're incarcerated, you have to have the freedom of movement to go do something to provide for yourself, but you cannot allow people to consume without production. So everybody has to produce. And you know, if you go back to the Plymouth Rock experiment, if you're familiar with that at all, yeah, yeah. So you know, just for anybody who doesn't know, when the Pilgrims came over here in the 1600s William Bradford was governor, and they tried it. They said, Hey, we're here. Let's Stick Together All for one and one for all. Here's the land. Everybody get up every day and work. Everybody works, and everybody eats. They starved. And so he goes, Okay, guys, new plan. All right, you wine holds. See this little plot of land, that's yours. You work it. You can eat whatever you produce. Over there, you grace. You're going to do yours and Johnson's, you're going to do yours, right? Well, what happened is now everybody got up and worked, and they created more than enough for their own family, and they had an abundance. And the abundance was created out of their hunger. When they went to serve their own needs, they created abundance forever others. That's the premise of capitalism. It's not the perfect system. There is no perfect system. We live in a world where human beings have to work before they get to eat. When I say eat, it could be having a roof over their head. It could be having clothes. It could be going on vacation. It could be having a nice car. It could be getting health care. It doesn't matter what it is, whatever it is you need. You have the right, or should have, the right, in a free system to go earn that by being productive, but the minute somebody comes and says, Oh, you worked, and I'm going to take what you produced and give it to somebody else who didn't, that's patently unfair, but economically, it's disastrous, because it incentivizes people not to work, which creates less production, more consumption. I have another analogy with sandwich makers, but you can imagine that if you got a group if you got a group of people making sandwiches, one guy starts creating coupons for sandwiches. Well then if somebody says, Okay, well now we got 19 people providing for 20. That's okay, but then all the guys making sandwiches. Why making sandwiches? I'm gonna get the coupon business pretty soon. You got 18 guys doing coupons, only two making sandwiches. Not. Have sandwiches to go around all the sandwiches cost tons of coupons because we got way more financialization than productivity, right? That's the American economy. We have to fix that. We can't have people making money by just trading on other people's productivity. We have to have people actually being productive. This is what I believe the administration is trying to do, rebuild the middle class, rebuild that manufacturing base, make us a truly productive economy, and then you don't have to worry about these things, right? We're going to create abundance. And if you don't have the inflation is which is coming from printing money out of thin air and giving to people who don't produce, then housing, all sudden, becomes affordable. It's not a problem. Health care becomes affordable. Everything becomes affordable because you create abundance, because everybody's producing the system is fundamentally broken. Now we have to learn how to profit in it in its current state, which is what you teach people how to do. We also have to realize that it's not sustainable. We're on an unsustainable path, and we're probably nearing that event horizon, the path of no return, where the system is going to break. And the question is, is, how are you going to be prepared for it when it happens? Number two, are you going to be wise enough to advocate when you get a chance to cast a vote or make your voice heard for something that's actually going to create prosperity and freedom versus something that's going to create scarcity and oppression? And that's the fundamental thing that we have to master as a society. We got to get to our youth, because they're the biggest demographic that can blow the thing up, and they're the ones that have been being indoctrinated the worst. Keith Weinhold 51:29 Yes, Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself said that we live in a economic system today that is unsustainable. Yes, the collectivism we touched on quickly descends into the tyranny of the majority. And in my experience, historically, the success of public housing projects has been or to mixed at best, residents often don't respect the property when they don't have an equity stake in it or even a security deposit tied up in it, and blight and high crime rates have often followed with these public housing projects. When you go down that path of making housing as a human right, like you said earlier, you have a right to go procure housing for yourself, just not to ask others to pay for it for you. Well, Russ, this has been great. It's good to have your voice back on the show. Here again, here on a real estate show. If people want to connect with you, continue to see what you've been up to and the good projects that you're working on, promoting the virtues of capitalism. What's the best way for them to do that? Russell Gray 52:31 I think just send an email to follow at Russell Gray, R, U, S, S, E, L, L, G, R, A, y.com, let you know where I am on social media. I'll let you know when I put out new content. I'll let you know when I'm a guest on somebody somebody's show and I'm on the cusp of getting my own show finally launched. I've been doing a lot of planning to get that out, but I'm excited about it because I do think, like I said, The time is now, and I think the marketplace is ripe, and I do speak Main Street and macro, and I hope I can add a nuance to the conversation that will add value to people. Keith Weinhold 53:00 Russ, it's been valuable as always. Thanks so much for coming back onto the show. Thanks, Keith. Yeah, terrific, historic outline from Russ about the long term decline of the dollar. It's really a fresh reminder and motivator to keep being that savvy borrower. Of course, real estate investors have access to borrow giant sums of dollars and short the currency that lay people do not. In fact, lay people don't even understand that it's a viable strategy at all. Like he touched on, Russ has really been bringing an awareness about how decentralization is such a powerful force that reshapes society. In fact, he was talking about that the last time that I saw him in person a few months ago. Notably, he touched on Nixon era wage and price controls. Don't you find it interesting? Fascinating, really, how a few weeks ago, Trump told Walmart not to pass tariff induced price increases onto their customers. Well, that's a form of price control that we're seeing today to our point, when we had the father of Reaganomics, David Stockman here on the show, five weeks ago, tariffs are already government intervention into the free market, and then a president telling private companies how to set their prices, that is really strong government overreach. I mean, I can't believe that more people aren't talking about this. Maybe that's just because this cycle started with Walmart, and that's just doesn't happen to be a company that people feel sorry for. Hey, well, I look forward to meeting you in person in Miami in just four days, as I'll be a faculty member for when we kick off the terrific real estate guys Investor Summit and see and really getting to know you, because we're going to spend nine days together. Teaching, learning and having a great time on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Until then, I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, don't quit your Daydream. 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After talking last week about his government's achievements in the social sphere, this episode looks at the difficulties Wilson faced in economics and foreign affairs.One way Wilson explored to address economic problems was to make a second application for Britain's entry to the Common market, then called the European Economic Community and now the European Union. However, like Macmillan before him, he ran into the immovable obstacle of de Gaulle, despite believing like Trump that he could overcome opposition by personal conversation with political leaders.He had the same disappointment in personal negotiations twice more. Once waswith the Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, the second in his offer to mediate over the Vietnam War between US President Johnson and the Soviet Premier Kosygin.He did have some success, though it attracted him more ridicule than admiration, in the military intervention he authorised on the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla and which came to be mocked as ‘the Bay of Piglets'.On the domestic front he'd long balanced the leadership ambitions of Jim Callaghan against those of George Brown. After Brown's departure, he did the same with Callaghan and Roy Jenkins. His hold on office came under threat as his public credibility sank. The threat intensified following the controversy over the proposals to control union activity through the courts, outlined in the paper ‘In Place of Strife'. Surprisingly advanced by a leftwinger, Barbara Castle, and backed by Wilson, it seemed to fly in the face of the rationale of Labour's very existence, founded as it had been to defend the unions.Eventually the proposals were dropped. Then with better economic news Labour began to climb in the polls. Encouraged, Wilson called a general election in June 1970. But it turned out that any optimism generated by the opinion pollsters was illusory.Ted Heath's Conservatives won the election and formed a new government.Incidentally, the German translation of the podcast has now moved past the Tudors and is now dealing with the Stuarts. It's available at:https://open.spotify.com/show/08M357CvtiWJsnEGyxitco?si=64613c2919df4a27Illustration: the kind of military action we can all appreciate. British forces restoring order in Anguilla in the 1969 ‘Bay of Piglets' operation (from Anguilla Police Unit 1969... By: Taff Bowen (AKA "Dickiebo"))Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License
Ils se nomment Roger Tessier, Paul Comiti, Henri Djouder et René Auvray, ce dernier remplacé en 1963, par le célèbre Raymond Sasia. Ils ont été les gardes du corps du général de Gaulle pendant 10 ans. Ce sont les gorilles du général, nom repris pour leur ouvrage graphique, par Julien Telo, illustrateur et Xavier Dorison, scénariste de télé, de cinéma, et de BD. Les gorilles du général est paru chez Casterman, et retrace de manière romancée, l'histoire des 4 hommes, qui ont mis leurs pas dans ceux du général de Gaulle, entre 1959 et 1969, date à laquelle il se retire de ses fonctions. Une séquence réalisée par Christine Pinchart Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 14h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : L'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwL'heure H : https://audmns.com/YagLLiKEt sa version à écouter en famille : La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiKAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
durée : 00:58:16 - LSD, la série documentaire - par : Cyril Marchan - Imaginée par Charles de Gaulle pour encadrer le travail du Parlement, l'institution s'est muée en une véritable juridiction garante des droits et libertés inscrits dans la Constitution. - réalisation : Véronique Samouiloff
durée : 00:06:48 - La Terre au carré - par : Mathieu Vidard - Dans les dix dernières minutes de l'émission, Thibaut Sardier de Libération évoque la consultation de l'aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle sur son avenir et sa mue écologique...tout en accompagnant une hausse du trafic aérien, ainsi que vos messages laissés sur le répondeur de l'émission. - réalisé par : Jérôme BOULET
durée : 00:02:06 - Le vrai ou faux - La phrase, prononcée par Lila Djellali, élue écologiste du 20e arrondissement de Paris et partagée massivement sur les réseaux sociaux, est une réécriture déformée et inexacte d'un propos tenu en 1967.
In this episode of Battleground '45, Patrick Bishop and Saul David transport us back to the immediate aftermath of World War II. The celebrations are over, and the monumental task of rebuilding has begun. For Britain, it was a moment of hope and determination to forge a better society out of the ashes of conflict, fuelled by a unique sense of national solidarity. Whilst across the Channel, France faced an even more daunting challenge. Bitterly divided by war, could Charles de Gaulle's coalition hold, and how would the nation heal? Meanwhile, for Germany, the future was uncertain and fraught with the enormity of its crimes. What price would the defeated nation pay? And as the smoke cleared across the globe, two giants emerged: the USA and The Soviet Union. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - battlegroundukraine@gmail.com Producer: James Hodgson X: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stéphane Bern raconte, à l'occasion de la Journée nationale de la Résistance, célébrée ce 27 mai, en référence à la première réunion du Conseil national de la Résistance qui s'est tenue le 27 mai 1943 pour unifier les principaux mouvements français, le destin de Jean Moulin, le résistant qui, à la demande du général de Gaulle, en a fait son oeuvre… Comment Jean Moulin est-il parvenu à unifier les différents mouvements de la Résistance intérieure française ? Quel est le contenu du programme adopté par le CNR le 15 mars 1944 ? L'union née de la Résistance a-t-elle perduré après la guerre ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit Fabrice Grenard, historien, chef du département recherche et pédagogie à la Fondation de la Résistance et auteur de "Jean Moulin, héros de la Résistance" (Tallandier, collection Texto) Au Coeur de l'Histoire est réalisée par Loïc Vimard. Rédaction en chef : Benjamin Delsol. Auteur du récit : Simon Veille. Journaliste : Armelle Thiberge. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Stéphane Bern raconte, à l'occasion de la Journée nationale de la Résistance, célébrée ce 27 mai, en référence à la première réunion du Conseil national de la Résistance qui s'est tenue le 27 mai 1943 pour unifier les principaux mouvements français, le destin de Jean Moulin, le résistant qui, à la demande du général de Gaulle, en a fait son oeuvre… Comment Jean Moulin est-il parvenu à unifier les différents mouvements de la Résistance intérieure française ? Quel est le contenu du programme adopté par le CNR le 15 mars 1944 ? L'union née de la Résistance a-t-elle perduré après la guerre ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit Fabrice Grenard, historien, chef du département recherche et pédagogie à la Fondation de la Résistance et auteur de "Jean Moulin, héros de la Résistance" (Tallandier, collection Texto) Au Coeur de l'Histoire est réalisée par Loïc Vimard. Rédaction en chef : Benjamin Delsol. Auteur du récit : Simon Veille. Journaliste : Armelle Thiberge. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Fluent Fiction - French: Taking Flight: A Journey of Courage and Discovery Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/fr/episode/2025-05-27-22-34-02-fr Story Transcript:Fr: Le matin était clair et doux au printemps, et l'aéroport Charles de Gaulle était rempli de voyageurs pressés.En: The morning was clear and mild in the spring, and Aéroport Charles de Gaulle was filled with hurried travelers.Fr: Les annonces résonnaient dans l'air.En: Announcements echoed in the air.Fr: Julien serrait ses billets, le cœur battant fort.En: Julien clutched his tickets, his heart pounding strongly.Fr: Aujourd'hui, il partait pour un programme d'échange au Canada.En: Today, he was leaving for an exchange program in Canada.Fr: C'était à la fois effrayant et excitant.En: It was both frightening and exciting.Fr: Camille, son meilleur ami, était à ses côtés.En: Camille, his best friend, was by his side.Fr: « Tu as de la chance », dit-elle avec un sourire un peu forcé.En: "You're lucky," she said with a slightly forced smile.Fr: Elle était contente pour Julien, mais une petite partie d'elle était jalouse.En: She was happy for Julien, but a small part of her was jealous.Fr: « C'est une grande aventure.En: "It's a big adventure."Fr: » Élise, la sœur de Julien, vérifiait que son frère avait bien tout pris.En: Élise, Julien's sister, was checking to make sure her brother had everything.Fr: « N'oublie pas ton passeport !En: "Don't forget your passport!"Fr: » Elle avait toujours été son modèle, libre et courageuse.En: She had always been his role model, free and courageous.Fr: Aujourd'hui, elle encourageait Julien à suivre ses pas.En: Today, she was encouraging Julien to follow in her footsteps.Fr: Le hall principal de l'aéroport était animé.En: The main hall of the airport was lively.Fr: Les voyageurs allaient et venaient, les valises roulaient sur le sol.En: Travelers were coming and going, suitcases rolled on the floor.Fr: L'odeur du café remplissait l'air.En: The smell of coffee filled the air.Fr: Julien inspirait profondément, sentant l'agitation autour de lui.En: Julien took a deep breath, feeling the bustle around him.Fr: C'était le moment de partir à l'aventure, de quitter sa zone de confort.En: It was time to go on an adventure, to leave his comfort zone.Fr: « Je suis nerveux », avoua-t-il enfin.En: "I'm nervous," he finally admitted.Fr: Camille le regarda avec compréhension.En: Camille looked at him with understanding.Fr: Elle posa une main réconfortante sur son épaule.En: She placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.Fr: « Ça va bien se passer.En: "It will be okay.Fr: Tu es prêt.En: You're ready.Fr: Pense à toutes les choses que tu vas découvrir.En: Think about all the things you're going to discover."Fr: » Julien sourit faiblement.En: Julien smiled faintly.Fr: Il devait surmonter sa peur.En: He had to overcome his fear.Fr: Il voulait embrasser cette opportunité.En: He wanted to embrace this opportunity.Fr: Quand le dernier appel pour son vol retentit, son cœur s'accéléra encore une fois.En: When the final call for his flight sounded, his heart raced once again.Fr: « Je peux le faire », pensa-t-il.En: "I can do it," he thought.Fr: Il se tourna vers Élise, qui le regardait avec fierté.En: He turned to Élise, who was watching him proudly.Fr: Elle savait combien ce moment était important pour lui.En: She knew how important this moment was for him.Fr: Camille, voyant sa détermination, sentit sa jalousie s'évanouir.En: Camille, seeing his determination, felt her jealousy vanish.Fr: Elle était réellement heureuse pour son ami.En: She was genuinely happy for her friend.Fr: Julien prit une grande inspiration et se dirigea vers la porte d'embarquement.En: Julien took a deep breath and headed towards the boarding gate.Fr: En franchissant la porte, il se sentit rempli d'un nouveau courage.En: As he passed through the door, he felt filled with new courage.Fr: Il allait explorer un nouveau monde et, surtout, il savait qu'il reviendrait changé.En: He was going to explore a new world and, most importantly, he knew he would return changed.Fr: Camille agita la main en signe d'au revoir, cette fois avec un vrai sourire.En: Camille waved goodbye, this time with a real smile.Fr: Élise regardait son frère avec les yeux brillants de soutien.En: Élise watched her brother with eyes shining with support.Fr: Leurs paroles d'encouragement résonnaient dans son cœur alors qu'il avançait.En: Their words of encouragement resonated in his heart as he moved forward.Fr: L'avion décolla bientôt, emportant Julien vers une expérience qui le transformerait.En: The plane soon took off, carrying Julien towards an experience that would transform him.Fr: Pendant le vol, il laissa ses inquiétudes derrière lui.En: During the flight, he left his worries behind.Fr: Il s'engageait dans une nouvelle aventure avec confiance et enthousiasme.En: He was embarking on a new adventure with confidence and enthusiasm.Fr: Dans les cieux clairs, il voyait l'avenir avec optimisme et détermination.En: In the clear skies, he saw the future with optimism and determination.Fr: Le voyage ne faisait que commencer.En: The journey was only beginning. Vocabulary Words:the announcement: l'annonceto clutch: serrerto echo: résonnerfrightening: effrayantthe heart: le cœurthe exchange program: le programme d'échangethe jealousy: la jalousiethe role model: le modèlecourageous: courageuxanimate: animéthe suitcase: la valiseto roll: roulerthe comfort zone: la zone de confortto admit: avouerthe determination: la déterminationto overcome: surmonterto embrace: embrasserthe opportunity: l'opportunitéto vanish: s'évanouirto encourage: encouragerthe boarding gate: la porte d'embarquementto pass through: franchirto transform: transformerthe departure: le décollagethe worry: l'inquiétudethe confidence: la confiancethe enthusiasm: l'enthousiasmeto resonate: résonnerto breathe: inspirerto glance: regarder
Cette semaine, dans un nouveau numéro d'Idées, Pierre-Édouard Deldique s'intéresse au programme fondateur du CNR avec son invitée, Claire Andrieu, historienne, spécialiste de l'après-guerre, coordinatrice du livre intitulé « Conseil national de la résistance » paru dans la collection Folio Histoire (Gallimard). Un livre de référence désormais. Devenu « mythique » avec les années, le Conseil national de la résistance a été fondé en 1943 alors que la France est placée sous le régime de Vichy. Sous l'autorité du général de Gaulle, les hommes qui le composent rédigent un programme des jours heureux, distribué clandestinement par le journal « Libération ». 200 000 exemplaires sont écoulés, et une fois la paix obtenue, certaines de ses mesures, comme la Sécurité sociale, sont mises en place.Dans son nouvel ouvrage, Claire Andrieu aborde ce programme dans « l'espace et le temps ». Comment a-t-il impacté la France et ses voisins ? De quoi s'inspire-t-il ? Qu'en reste-t-il aujourd'hui ?Autant de questions qu'elle aborde avec Pierre-Édouard Deldique durant ce nouvel épisode d'Idées, le magazine qui interroge celles et ceux qui pensent le monde.Lien utile. Programmation musicale :- Ben Selvin and his orchestra - Happy days are here again- Georges Gosset - Eh Hop On En Sortira.
The Dollar Standard, Global Liquidity, and the Coming Economic Reckoning In my expansive and highly accessible conversation with renowned economist Richard Duncan, we discuss the logic behind his long-running critique of the international monetary system, a system Richard calls the Dollar Standard where he explains why current U.S. policy moves, the system could come crashing down. The Origins of the Dollar Standard and America's “Exorbitant Privilege” The Dollar Standard, Duncan explains, evolved out of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system (implemented after WWII) in 1971. Under Bretton Woods, currencies were pegged to the U.S. dollar, and the dollar was pegged to gold. But when other countries accumulated more dollars than the U.S. had gold, President Nixon suspended dollar convertibility, effectively ending the gold standard. What replaced it was a floating currency regime and the birth of the Dollar Standard. Crucially, the U.S. began running persistent trade deficits, importing goods and sending dollars abroad. These dollars, in turn, were recycled by foreign central banks, especially in trade surplus countries like China and Japan, into U.S. dollar-denominated assets, primarily Treasuries, but also equities and real estate. This loop, Duncan argues, created America's “exorbitant privilege”: the ability to fund government spending and consumer imports at artificially low interest rates, because foreign buyers are constantly reinvesting in U.S. debt and assets. The phrase "exorbitant privilege" was first coined by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who later became President of France, but at the time was serving as France's Minister of Finance under President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s. He used the term to criticize the unique advantages enjoyed by the United States under the Bretton Woods system, particularly the ability to run persistent deficits by issuing debt in its own currency (the U.S. dollar), while foreign nations had to hold and use those dollars to trade and build reserves. Giscard and de Gaulle saw this as an unfair financial hegemony that allowed the U.S. to “live beyond its means” at the expense of others. The phrase was intended as a critique but, ironically, it's now often used in a neutral or even admiring tone by economists. How Global Credit Became a Bubble Machine Duncan makes the case that this system, while benefiting the U.S. enormously, has been fundamentally destabilizing for the rest of the world. As surplus countries absorb dollar inflows, their central banks convert them into local currency, often by printing their own money. That liquidity ends up in domestic banking systems, fueling excessive credit growth, asset bubbles, and financial crises. It happened in Japan in the late 1980s. It triggered the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s. And it helped fuel China's real estate boom and the global credit bubble that preceded the 2008 collapse. Notably, Duncan predicted the 2008 financial crisis in his 2003 book, The Dollar Crisis, warning that runaway global imbalances would eventually lead to a systemic shock. He now argues that post-2008 bailouts and quantitative easing (QE) only expanded the bubble rather than fixing the problem. Trump's Trade Doctrine: Potential to Destabilize the System Fast forward to 2025: Trump is back in office, and his administration is moving quickly to reshape global trade. Duncan's concern is that the Trump administration's effort to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit by imposing high tariffs and pursuing a strategic devaluation of the dollar, undermines the very structure that has sustained U.S. prosperity and global financial stability for decades. Why? Because every U.S. trade deficit is matched by a capital inflow. It's a balance-of-payments identity: if the U.S. runs a $1.1 trillion current account deficit, there must be a $1.1 trillion capital surplus (i.e., inflows) to finance it. Take that away and you choke off the supply of global liquidity that props up asset prices worldwide. The Doom Loop: What Happens If Capital Stops Flowing In Duncan walks through the scenario: If tariffs succeed in shrinking the trade deficit, dollars stop flowing abroad. Without those dollars, foreign central banks have fewer reserves to recycle into U.S. assets. This reduces demand for Treasuries, pushing interest rates up. Rising rates crush real estate, stocks, and credit-dependent sectors. Simultaneously, trade-surplus economies face a liquidity crunch, leading to job losses, bankruptcies, and potential financial crises. The result? A global depression triggered not by market excess this time, but by deliberate government policy. Duncan notes that the Trump administration has already blinked once in rolling back tariffs on China after markets began to seize. But the damage to global confidence in the dollar's stability and America's reliability as a trading partner may already be done. CRE-Specific Risks For CRE professionals, Duncan's framework suggests several key risks: Interest Rate Volatility: If capital inflows decline, Treasury demand will fall and rates may rise, increasing financing costs and repricing assets downward. Foreign Capital Flight: A weakening dollar and escalating trade tensions could lead to foreign divestment from U.S. real estate, especially in coastal gateway cities where foreign investors are dominant. Liquidity Shock: Reduced global liquidity may tighten credit markets, making debt financing harder to access for new acquisitions or refis. Wealth Effect Reversal: Falling stock prices and higher rates could curb consumer spending and investor confidence, affecting retail, hospitality, and housing-linked CRE. Is There a Way Out? Despite the dire tone, Duncan offers a constructive alternative. In his more recent book, The Money Revolution, he advocates using the U.S. government's borrowing capacity, enabled by dollar dominance and low rates, to invest aggressively in future-focused industries: AI, biotech, quantum computing, green energy. In short: inflate productively, not destructively. Use fiat-financed public investment to grow out of the debt bubble, rather than letting it implode through austerity or protectionism. But he acknowledges that political will may be lacking and that, without it, the only other option will be another round of massive QE when the next crisis hits. Final Thought Duncan's message is clear: we are not playing by gold standard rules anymore. The U.S. economy, and the world's, runs on confidence, liquidity, and the flow of capital. Disrupt that system and we may find ourselves testing whether the Fed and Treasury can reflate the bubble one more time. *** You may not agree with Richard's perspective but, as a real estate investor, understanding differing points of view helps in underwriting investment risk by incorporating possible downsides into exit strategies. This is a fascinating and accessible discussion. 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durée : 00:59:03 - Le Cours de l'histoire - par : Xavier Mauduit, Maïwenn Guiziou - Le gaullisme désigne à la fois la pensée et l'action du général de Gaulle. Incarnation d'une “certaine idée de la France”, il n'a eu de cesse d'adapter sa ligne politique au gré des circonstances. À partir des années 1970, le gaullisme devient un héritage disputé au sein de la droite française. - réalisation : Thomas Beau - invités : Pierre Manenti Historien, spécialiste du gaullisme et de la Cinquième République.; Brigitte Gaïti Professeure de sciences politique à l'université Paris I
Il y a 80 ans, quelques mois après la Libération, la France se reconstruit et commence à panser les plaies béantes infligées par quatre années d'Occupation. Alors que le régime de Vichy s'effondre et que le GPRF - le Gouvernement Provisoire de la République française est instauré, le général de Gaulle choisit de fédérer une nation fracturée en mettant en avant l'idée d'une France toute entière tournée vers la Résistance contre l'ennemi. Mais la France a-t-elle été majoritairement résistante ? En 1940, les Français n'ont-ils pas majoritairement soutenu Pétain, qui choisissait la collaboration ? Pour évoquer ces questions, Virginie Girod reçoit l'historienne Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon. Spécialiste de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur la Résistance et l'Occupation.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
1945-2025, 80 ans de la capitulation allemande. En avril 1945, l'Hôtel Lutetia, situé dans VIe arrondissement de Paris, est choisi par le général de Gaulle pour accueillir les déportés de retour des camps de concentration nazis. Pendant plusieurs mois, cet établissement luxueux est un lieu d'accueil, de retrouvailles et de réadaptation pour les rescapés, parmi lesquels 2500 juifs et 45000 résistants et opposants politiques. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Stéphane Bern raconte un événement qui a fait date dans l'histoire politique de la France : la démission du président Charles de Gaulle, premier occupant de l'Élysée sous la Vème République, et le dernier en date à l'avoir quitté de son propre chef, à la suite d'un référendum historique et au crépuscule d'un long règne républicain, pour entrer pour toujours dans la légende… Dans quel contexte Charles de Gaulle a-t-il démissionné ? Quelles ont été les conséquences politiques de sa décision ? 55 ans après sa mort, que symbolise-t-il encore en France ? Pour en parler, Stéphane Bern reçoit Arnaud Teyssier, historien, président du Conseil scientifique de la Fondation Charles-de-Gaulle et auteur de "Charles de Gaulle, l'angoisse et la grandeur" (Perrin) Au Coeur de l'Histoire est réalisée par Pierre Cazalot. Rédaction en chef : Benjamin Delsol. Auteur du récit : Eloi Audoin-Rouzeau. Journaliste : Armelle Thiberge. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.