Europe still has power due to its economy and its legacy position within the global institutions founded in the aftermath of World War II. But it’s drifting backward in comparison to both the US and China, whose strategic positioning at the global level is immensely strengthened by their harboring today’s largest and most potent tech companies.

Ce qui a changé aujourd’hui, monsieur Léger, c’est que le clivage droite-gauche est complètement dépassé. Le clivage, c’est entre ceux qui défendent le peuple et ceux qui l’ignorent, entre ceux qui aiment la France et ceux qui la mettent en danger. Entre ceux qui veulent résister à l’invasion et à la disparition de notre culture et ceux qui s’y rés

And as for my home country of France, we picked a little bit from both worlds, as is our way. Our national Great Safety Net was initially organized at the industry level, like in Germany; but over time the state became more and more involved, like in the UK, so as to take a more universal approach to economic security and prosperity.

As we close out the second decade of the twenty-first century, we can draw some conclusions about the post–Cold War era. This has been a period in which new information and communication technologies have burst onto the world scene in forms that have made them widely available. There have also been great advances in development, including in medici