Post-truth era, post-democratic president, post-liberal world order?

Mercredi 21 janvier, 18h Une conférence de Élisabeth Vallet, Observatoire de géopolitique de la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand (UQAM) et Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. coeurdessciences.uqam.ca/evenements/e... #uqam 🙏 @economieqc.bsky.social @elisabethvallet.bsky.social

In case you're asking, it is not the Monroe Doctrine anymore. It is the Teddy 2.0 Doctrine.

And the first week of 2026 is not over.

Regarder simultanément Wag the Dog et L'étau de Munich en stéréo, 2026 style. check.✔️

Aujourd'hui on lit: Préparer la guerre de @olivierschmitt.bsky.social : Cet ouvrage analyse en détail les facteurs politiques, organisationnels et stratégiques qui permettent aux organisations militaires de s'adapter à de nouveaux enjeux sécuritaires #verytimely

As @profsaunders.bsky.social puts it "It is not so much falling dominoes, as the U.S. feared would happen during the Cold War if countries joined the communist camp, as smashing the domino table". #smashingthedominotabletheory

Ontological security will be much easier to explain in the classroom now (Yes you should freak out. this is not a meme)

It is less a domino theory than smashing the entire domino table

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses. (Published Nov. 2025)

A Minnesota hotel operator says it is working to accommodate federal law enforcement officers after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Hilton Hotels of carrying out a “coordinated campaign” to refuse them rooms in Minneapolis.

3 paths: - transition - criminalized continuity - yet another forever war

Meanwhile.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Looking for Ice law? www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Cette musique qui roule comme des vagues, douce et enveloppante, qui sentait le sud dans ses versions romanesques et sombres, reflet d'un mode de vie en sépia est vouée à disparaître www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If only the Constitution vested the power to undertake hostilities to Congress.

The Arctic is ground zero for the colliding threats of climate change and geopolitical competition between the US, Russia, China, and EU countries. My interview with @klausdodds.bsky.social on his new book Unfrozen michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/unfrozen-t...

Prez' Senior Advisor spouse Read the U.S. NSS + look at Haushofer's map. Breathe.

Quoiqu’on vous dise : « Nobody knows what happens next » #mustread By @profsaunders.bsky.social

Democracy dies in broad daylight

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Trump wants to hit cartel targets in Mexico, and the success of the Maduro capture puts more pressure on Sheinbaum to adjust her red lines www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Wild swings between Venezuela and Washington DC by Trump. Near abroad & inner abroad intimately connected in his head. “We’ve superseded the Monroe Doctrines..”

A Little reminder that you should never sell national assets to foreign companies, it may snap back at you at some point

Kidnapper un chef d'État, dynamiter l'ordre international

Unchecked executive power smashing the dominos table, imperial overstretch. This thread 👇👌

In case you're asking. Regime change. Does. NOT. work.

Incidemment. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

2 articles, same take. "The Panama analogy persists because it’s emotionally satisfying for U.S. hawks: swift action, minimal cost, moral clarity. But Washington cannot invade its way to desired outcomes in Caracas. (...) Pretending otherwise isn’t strategy—it’s nostalgia."

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

Not only is this true. But in the light of the new US national strategy document, it is, in fact, true-r.

Ceci. Tout discours légitimant une pratique illégale par une autre (illégale également) n'a pas de logique juridique ou politique. 2 pratiques illégitimes et autoritaires ne s'annulent pas. Elles co-existent.

And 1) it's no good news for the world. Haushofer being who he was. 2) countries traditionally free from major geopolitical anxiety must start to worry

Forget Huntington's map that everyone is bringing up this morning. It's Haushofer's map that we need to look at.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Elisabeth Vallet de la Universidad de Quebec calcula que ahora existen 74 muros fronterizos en todo el mundo, seis veces más que al final de la Guerra Fría El negocio del miedo: empresas militares impulsan una era de muros y vallas para detener la migración - www.diario-red.com/articulo/int...

...when she received an email from the EPA terminating her award and requiring her to return 2/3 of grant because “the objectives of the award are no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities": www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/s... (gift). Begs the question, what then are the EPA's priorities? 🌎

Remember when we were discussing it 2 years ago?!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

The economic disruption/sabotage of deporting millions of workers at time of near full employment is only just beginning to be felt. “Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

Les patinoires des quartiers défavorisés de Montréal davantage impraticables

Risking their lives for safety. 💔

Geography matters. www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...

Ce dernier discours aura été à l’image de cette présidence 2.0 "un dirigeant empourpré, les 2 mains accrochées au podium, vomissant un staccato de mensonges dans une vocifération à la nation violente, acide et erratique. Quelque part entre un numéro de cirque et les funérailles de la bienséance"

Il faut lire cet ouvrage de Sacco comme une grille de lecture du monde actuel,de la polarisation d'une société, et l'on en ressort avec ce sentiment qu'on devrait pouvoir faire mieux parce qu'on sait désormais comment ça arrive. #OuPas