“Western newspapers are tragically funny. The French public intellectual pointed to UN votes concerning Russia, and cautioned that the West is out of touch with the rest of the world.
This means that “the resistance of the Russian economy is pushing the American imperial system toward the precipice”, and “the American monetary and financial controls of the world would collapse”. US and EU sanctions have failed to crush Russia, as Western capitals had hoped, he noted. This means that “Germany and France had become minor partners in NATO”, Todd said, and NATO is really a “Washington-London-Warsaw-Kiev” bloc. The US “imperial system” is weakening in much of the world, he observed, but this is leading Washington to “strengthen its hold on its initial protectorates”: Europe and Japan. At the moment, it is only available in Japan.īut Todd outlined the main arguments he made in the book in a French-language interview with the major newspaper Le Figaro, conducted by the journalist Alexandre Devecchio.Īccording to Todd, the proxy war in Ukraine is “existential” not only for Russia, but also for the United States. In 2022, Todd published a book titled “The Third World War Has Started” (“La Troisième Guerre mondiale a commencé” in French). He also warned that Europe has become a kind of imperial “protectorate”, which has little sovereignty and is essentially controlled by the US.Įmmanuel Todd is a widely respected anthropologist and historian in France. (Se puede leer esta nota en español aquí.)Ī prominent French intellectual has written a book arguing that the United States is already waging World War Three against Russia and China.
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