This Newsletter is the 7th published in 2025 and the 41st since the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Brown is an ambivalent color that symbolizes sobriety and austerity or a devastating glamour in Hollywood. The 'marrons' were in the French Antilles (1642-1848) the name given to people reduced to slavery who had regained their freedom. A racist and hierarchical approach is consubstantial with authoritarian regimes that set their fellow citizens against each other and fuel dissent. Since his arrival in power, Vladimir Putin has continued to lie to his fellow citizens, to his interlocutors, and to the rest of the world – the Russians are «brown», the first victims, taken for a ride. Ukraine is facing new challenges and must be able to skillfully pull its irons from the fire by thwarting the pitfalls of the new American strategy inspired by the Russian approach, a "vertical of fear". In spy novels or films, harmless names evoke ambiguous cases or situations. The ”marrons glacés”, like 'white elephants' refer to mirages or 'Trojan horses' refer to traps, are targets in Europe for the Russian regime. They can be poisoned for the West and prove to be very indigestible for Russia. Nothing is played.
1- Colour brown
2- Russians are « marrons »
3- Irons in the fire in Ukraine
4- “Marrons glacés » in Europe