[STRICTEMENT PERSONNEL] The man in the blue suit

Ingratitude and its younger sister, betrayal, have always grown, flowered and brought to maturity their bitter fruits in the shadow of power. To limit ourselves to France and the contemporary era, the examples given to us and, on occasion, suffered by the late Jacques Chirac, then Nicolas Sarkozy, Emmanuel Macron and the young Gabriel Attal are still in everyone's memory or already in the news and short-term forecasts. Such is life in the land of scorpions, snakes and vipers. It's politics, I mean.

The fine sleuths of Washington Post or, failing them, historians will one day reveal to us in its entirety the web of intrigues, plots, betrayals, defections which, behind the curtain, forced the unfortunate Joe Biden to nobly sacrifice himself, despite himself, on the altar of the Democratic Party. The affair was carried out smoothly. Without yet having the final word on it, those in the know appreciated the speed and elegance of the maneuver which led his protégé, his second, his favorite vice-president, after having cheerfully pushed grandfather into the nettles, to take his place.

Young – at least younger than her fallen mentor – woman, clearly representative of an open, multicultural and multi-ethnic America, apparently dynamic, friendly, smiling, modern, Kamala Harris seemed to have all the cards in hand.

Kamala Harris' lack of vision

Three months, only three months have passed, and the aura of the candidate taken out by her elders from their surprise bag has considerably faded. In vain did the more or less official sponsors of the candidate multiply the efforts, the speeches, the interventions, the meetings to convince supporters, hesitants and even adversaries that she was, that she is “the right choice”, as said Giscard… The talent and the weight that the Obama clan and the Clinton clan throw into the balance rather lead one to wonder why Barack, or rather Michelle, Hillary or rather Bill have not themselves taken up the gauntlet and They did not simply make a big mistake by launching into the competition a filly who they wrongly believed would make short work of the old returning horse who was opposed to her. The more everyone mobilizes, shouts and exhausts themselves to give breath, warmth, thickness, consistency to Kamala, the more they highlight by contrast the inadequacies, the limits, the ambiguities. , the lack of eloquence and the lack of vision of a prematurely out of breath champion whose ambition no one questions but whose ambition it is permissible and even judicious to wonder, a little late, if she really has the stature of his ambition; in short, if she was the right person, at the right time, in the right place. In any case, three days before an election whose issues and consequences legitimately excite the United States and the entire planet, the uncertainty is complete and the fog is total.

On her road to the White House, sometimes in her wheel, sometimes in the lead, by a hair (blond), and finally neck and neck as the final sprint is launched, the favorite faces the most formidable of outsiders.

Donald Trump: immutable, unbearable, fascinating, unsinkable

We will not, within the necessarily limited framework of a chronicle, be ridiculous in presenting the character with imperturbably peroxided hair, whose always tanned complexion owes a lot to UV radiation and the rest to the generous Florida sun, the man in a blue suit and red tie whose wardrobe – something difficult to believe – seems even more limited than the vocabulary, the orator who tirelessly reels off, without tiring his innumerable audience, the same themes, the same propositions, the same rants , the same excesses, the same ranting, the same promises that millions and millions of North American citizens want to hear, equally distant, in every way, from New York and San Francisco, equally irritated, disillusioned or mad with rage. or despair in the face of the contempt of those who are a little quick to designate themselves as the elite (we also know this at home) and in the face of the evolution of their great country ravaged by the scourge of drug addiction and threatened by decadence before 'having known civilization… We don't present Donald Trump, he knows how to do it very well himself, like in 2016, successfully, like in 2020, narrowly beaten and a bad loser, like today, coming back from far away and well capable of beating her rival on the post, to everyone's surprise. Immutable, unbearable, fascinating, unsinkable… but dragging like a ball and chain a criminal record that his re-election would make disappear by the magic of victory and that his defeat would complete the damage.

And America, in the world?

We will be careful here not to further increase the torrential flow of comments, analyses, decryptions and reports that the election of November 5 is generating on this side of the Atlantic, as is normal. A word, though. Experts assure us day after day that North American voters will decide solely on the basis of internal criteria: women's rights, inflation, prices, standard of living and activity, immigration control… Should we believe it? Can we believe that the voters of what remains, until more informed, the leading power in the world, financially, industrially and militarily, are insensitive to the background against which next Tuesday's election stands out: namely the role of the United States on the three scenes where the risk of a Third World War is being played out now and can be decided in the years to come: Ukraine, the Middle East and the Formosa Strait. Mired in a financially, politically and humanly disastrous non-choice, the United States is pursuing a dead dog policy on these three fronts through water, blood and renunciation. They give Zelensky the means to continue the war by denying him those that would allow him to win it. They let Netanyahu prolong in time and extend on the ground a conflict which is nothing more than a butchery. On the Ukrainian front, by cutting off the tap of financial and technical aid to kyiv, Trump, if elected, would force Ukraine to abandon the four oblasts that Moscow covets and already largely occupies, as well as to recognize the belonging of Crimea to the Russian whole. Unwavering and unsuspected support of Israel, Trump, if elected, will stop and if necessary twist the arm of the Jewish state to prohibit it from going “beyond the river”, or even, by extension, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the shores of the Caspian Sea. Regarding Taiwan, Trump is firmly determined to declare “total” war on China, but without F-16without aircraft carriers, without missiles, without nuclear weapons, on the basis of assumed and rigorous protectionism. In short, the possible Republican president is the man to keep his country, therefore the West and, as a corollary, the world on the slippery slope where sleepwalking leaders have brought it, within sight of the Apocalypse.

Let's come down from these heights and return to the immediate. A certainty, despite the cloudy weather at the moment. If, as of next Wednesday (or in the weeks that follow), Donald Trump is proclaimed winner, he will not contest the November 5 election.