The title is one of my favorite world leader quotes, and my second favorite by Chirac.

This excellent article just showed up in my reading list today. I wonder, "Why now?"

Very telling that two months later, the US and France are not at war in Africa. That for me is the clear sign that a new multipolar world is forming. "The West" does not have the bandwidth to continue the proxy war in Ukraine, prop up the apartheid state of Israel, provoke Iran and China AND put down the coups of "former" French colonies.

A very interesting future awaits us. I hope we live to see it.