The far-right party AfD shook the political landscape of Germany this Sunday by winning the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt with a record result of 44%, according to the first projections from the public broadcaster ZDF while awaiting the final count. Far behind, the Christian Democratic CDU would remain as the second force, falling to 18.5%, followed closely by the leftist Die Linke and the Social Democratic SPD, both parties with 9%.

President Donald Trump expands his Donroe doctrine. His new strategy involves the complicity and cover of allied countries in the American continent to justify interventions in other nations of that territory under the pretext of “increasing operational effectiveness against threats that undermine regional security and affect the United States.”

Charles de Gaulle did not trust the Americans. The leader of the French resistance against the German occupation in World War II, and future founder of the Fifth Republic, was fully aware that the Allied victory over Hitler owed everything to the United States (even though he publicly tried to downplay its importance). But after the liberation, he soon distanced himself from Washington, whose desire for tutelage he feared. “I am not anti-American simply because I am not always on the side of the U.S.,” he declared in a television interview in 1965, during the height of the Vietnam War escalation. He was not, but he did become a symbol of a certain French anti-Americanism.