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He explains what constitutes, according to him, the fundamental difference between the two conceptions of the world order which clash today from Donbass to Gaza: that of the Western bloc and that to which the rest of the world refers. It is not a question of knowing whether this order should be dominated by one power (unipolar) or by a group of powers (multipolar), but whether or not it should be respectful of the sovereignty of each. The author draws on the history of international law, as Tsar Nicholas II and Nobel Peace Prize winner Léon Bourgeois conceived it.

We have seen NATO's crimes, but why affirm our friendship with Russia? Is there not a risk of seeing it behave tomorrow like NATO today? Are we not going to substitute one slavery for another?

To answer this question, I would draw on my successive experience as advisor to five heads of state. Russian diplomats everywhere told me: you are on the wrong track: you are committing to putting out a fire here, while another has started elsewhere. The problem is deeper and broader.
I would therefore like to describe to you the difference between a world order based on rules and one based on international law. It is not a linear story, but a battle between two worldviews; a fight that it is up to us to continue.

In the 1815th century, the Treaties of Westphalia established the principle of state sovereignty. Everyone is equal to others and no one can interfere in the internal affairs of others. It is these Treaties which have governed, for centuries, both relations between the current Länder and those between European States. They were reaffirmed by the Congress of Vienna in XNUMX, during the defeat of Napoleon I.

On the eve of the First World War, Tsar Nicholas II convened two International Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907), in The Hague, in order to "search for the most effective means of ensuring to all peoples the benefits of real and lasting peace. He prepared them with Pope Benedict XV on the basis of canon law and not on the law of the strongest. 27 states signed the final work, after two months of deliberations. The president of the French Radical [Republican] Party, Léon Bourgeois, presented his thoughts on the reciprocal dependence of States and on the interest they have in uniting despite their rivalries.
Under the leadership of Léon Bourgeois, the Conference created an international court of arbitration responsible for resolving conflicts by legal means rather than by war. According to Bourgeois, states will only agree to disarm when they have other security guarantees. The final text establishes the notion of “the duty of States to avoid war”… by resorting to arbitration.

Under the leadership of a minister of the Tsar, Frédéric Fromhold de Martens, the Conference agreed that, during an armed conflict, the populations and the belligerents must remain under the protection of the principles which result from "the customs established between civilized nations, the laws of humanity and the demands of public conscience. In short, the signatories agreed to no longer behave like barbarians.
This system only works between civilized states that honor their signature and are accountable to their public opinion. It failed, in 1914, because the States had lost their sovereignty by concluding Defense treaties requiring them to enter into war automatically in certain circumstances which they could not assess themselves.

Léon Bourgeois' ideas gained ground, but encountered opposition, including that of his rival within the Radical Party, Georges Clemenceau. The latter did not believe that public opinion could prevent wars. The Anglo-Saxons, the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, did not believe it either. The three men substituted the Force of the Victors for International Law, which was still in its infancy at the end of the First World War. They shared the world and the remains of the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman empires. They placed full responsibility for the massacres on Germany alone, denying their own. They imposed disarmament without guarantees. To prevent the emergence of a rival to the British Empire in Europe, the Anglo-Saxons began to pit Germany against the USSR and obtained silence from France by assuring it that it could plunder the II° Reich defeated. In a way, as the first President of the Federal Republic, Theodor Heuss, said, they organized the conditions for the development of Nazism.
As they had agreed among themselves, the three men reshaped the world in their image (Wilson's 14 points, the Sykes-Picot agreements, the Balfour declaration). They created the Jewish home of Palestine, dissected Africa and Asia and tried to reduce Turkey to its bare minimum. They organized all the current disorders in the Middle East.

However, it was on the basis of the ideas of the late Nicholas II and Léon Bourgeois that the League of Nations (SDN) was established after the First World War, without the participation of the United States which thus officially refused any idea of ​​international law. However, the League of Nations also failed. Not because the United States refused to be part of it, as is said. It was their right. But firstly because it was incapable of re-establishing strict equality between the States, the United Kingdom being opposed to considering colonized peoples equal. Then because it did not have a common army. And finally because the Nazis massacred their opponents, destroyed German public opinion, violated the Berlin signature and did not hesitate to behave like barbarians.

As early as the Atlantic Charter in 1942, the new US President Franklin Roosevelt and the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, set the common objective of establishing a world government at the end of the conflict. The Anglo-Saxons, who imagined themselves able to govern the world, did not however agree among themselves on how to go about it. Washington did not want London to interfere in its affairs in Latin America, while London did not intend to share the hegemony of the Empire on which “the sun never set”. The Anglo-Saxons signed a number of treaties during the War with the Allied governments, notably those in exile, which they hosted in London.

Moreover, the Anglo-Saxons did not succeed in defeating the Third Reich; it was the Soviets who overthrew it and took Berlin. Joseph Stalin, the first secretary of the CPSU, was opposed to the idea of ​​a world government, especially Anglo-Saxon. He just wanted an organization that could prevent future conflicts. In any case, it was Russian conceptions which gave birth to the system: that of the United Nations Charter, during the San Francisco conference.

In the spirit of the Hague Conferences, all UN member states are equal. The Organization includes an internal tribunal, the International Court of Justice, responsible for resolving conflicts that arise between its members. However, given previous experiences, the five victorious powers have a permanent seat on the Security Council with a veto. Given that there was no trust between them (the Anglo-Saxons had considered continuing the war with the remaining German troops against the USSR) and that it was unknown how the General Assembly would behave, the various victors wanted to ensure that the UN did not turn against them (the United States had committed terrible war crimes by launching two atomic bombs against civilians, while Japan… was preparing its surrender to the Soviets). But the great powers did not understand the veto in the same way at all. For some, it was a right to censor the decisions of others, for others, it was the obligation to make decisions unanimously by the winners.

Except that from the start, the Anglo-Saxons did not play the game: an Israeli state proclaimed itself (May 14, 1948) before its borders had been agreed, then the special envoy of the secretary General of the United Nations who was to ensure the creation of a Palestinian state, Count Folke Bernadotte, was assassinated by Jewish supremacists, under the command of Yitzhak Shamir. Furthermore, the Security Council seat allocated to China, in the context of the ending Chinese civil war, was given to Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and not to Beijing. The Anglo-Saxons proclaimed the independence of their Korean zone of occupation under the name "Republic of Korea" (August 15, 1948), created NATO (April 4, 1949), then proclaimed the independence of their zone of occupation. German occupation under the name of “Federal Germany” (May 23, 1949).

Considering that it had been fooled, the USSR slammed the door (“empty seat” policy). The Georgian Joseph Stalin wrongly believed that the veto was not a right of censorship, but a condition of unanimity of the winners. He thought he would block the organization by boycotting it.
The Anglo-Saxons interpreted the text of the Charter that they had drawn up and took advantage of the absence of the Soviets to place “blue helmets” on the heads of their soldiers and waged war on the North Koreans (June 25, 1950) in the “name of the international community” (sic). Ultimately, on August 1, 1950, the Soviets returned to the UN, after 6 and a half months of absence.

If the North Atlantic Treaty is legal, NATO's internal regulations violate the United Nations Charter. He placed the allied armies under the command of the Anglo-Saxons. Its commander-in-chief, the SACEUR, must be a United States officer. According to its first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, the real objective of the Alliance is neither to preserve peace nor to fight against the Soviets, but to "Keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans under supervision. In short, it is the armed wing of the world government that Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to create. It is in pursuit of this goal that President Joe Biden ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline which linked Russia to Germany.

At the Liberation, MI6 and the OPC (i.e. the future CIA) secretly installed a stay-behind network in Germany. They placed thousands of Nazi officials there whom they helped to escape justice. Klaus Barbie, who tortured French Resistance coordinator Jean Moulin, became the first commander of this shadow army. Then this network was incorporated within NATO where it was largely reduced. It was then used by the Anglo-Saxons to interfere in the political life of their supposed allies, in reality their vassals.

Former collaborators of Joseph Goebbels created the Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit. They persecuted German communists with the help of the United States. Later NATO stay-behind agents were able to manipulate the far left to make it detestable. This is for example the case of the Bader gang. But as these men were arrested, the stay-behind came to assassinate them in prison, before they were tried and spoke. In 1992, Denmark spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel on the instructions of NATO, as in 2022, Norway, another NATO member, helped the United States to sabotage Nord Stream...

Let's return to International Law, gradually things returned to order until the Ukrainian Leonid Brezhnev did, in Central Europe, in 1968 during the Prague Spring, what the Anglo-Saxons did everywhere else: he banned States allied with the USSR to choose an economic model other than the breast.

It was with the dissolution of the USSR that things started to get worse. US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz developed a doctrine according to which, to remain masters of the world, the United States must do everything to prevent the emergence of a new rival, starting with the European Union. . It was in application of this idea that Secretary of State James Baker imposed the enlargement of the European Union to all the former States of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR. By developing in this way, the Union deprived itself of the possibility of becoming a political entity. It is still in application of this doctrine that the Treaty of Maastricht placed the EU under the protection of NATO. And it is still in application of this doctrine that Germany and France pay and arm Ukraine.

Then came the Czech-US professor Josef Korbel. He proposed to the Anglo-Saxons to dominate the world by rewriting international treaties. According to him, it was enough to substitute Anglo-Saxon law, based on custom, for the rationality of Roman law. In this way, all the Treaties would give the advantage in the long term to the dominant powers: the United States and the United Kingdom, linked by a “special relationship”, in the words of Winston Churchill. Professor Korbel's daughter, the democrat Madeleine Albright, became ambassador to the UN, then secretary of state. Then, when the White House passed into Republican hands, Professor Korbel's adopted daughter, Condoleeza Rice, succeeded him as National Security Advisor, then Secretary of State. For two decades, the two “sisters” patiently rewrote the main international texts, allegedly to modernize them, in fact to change their spirit.

Today, international institutions operate according to rules decreed by the Anglo-Saxons, based on previous violations of international law. This right is not written in any code, since it is an interpretation of custom by the dominant power. Every day we substitute unjust rules for international law and we violate our own signature.

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