What has been unfolding in front of our eyes in the last four weeks has been a modern and reduced version of the balance-of-power system that dominated Europe and the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Le spectacle auquel nous avons assisté ces quatre dernières semaines est la version condensée moderne des rapports de force qui ont dominé l’Europe et le monde aux dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles.