Tag: worstcase
kyiv bombed, atomic weapons deployed… The worst-case scenario on the table
After the Ukrainian attack with American missiles in Russia, a military escalation is feared, accompanied by a nuclear threat. Tensions are rising a notch in the conflict between Ukraine and…
January 6, 2025, a new assault on the Capitol? Donald Trump and the worst-case scenario – L’Express
It was four years ago. In 2020, Donald Trump refused to recognize the results of the presidential election, “rigged” according to him, and called on his supporters to protest against…
An ungovernable France, the worst-case scenario for the nuclear industry – L’Express
Even before the result of the second round of the legislative elections, energy experts are asking themselves questions. What if, following the vote, France were to fall back into its…
Russia, China, New Caledonia… How the French army is preparing for worst-case scenarios – L’Express
“Let us always think about it, never talk about it,” said Léon Gambetta about the lost Alsace-Lorraine. The formula has long defined the relationship to war of the leaders of…
Avian flu: Antarctica faces worst-case scenario
In France, since December 5, free-range breeders have been forced to confine their poultry. The cause is the appearance of several outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in different departments.…
French children among Hamas hostages, the worst-case scenario envisaged
Facing the Senate, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced on Wednesday that Paris had no news of 18 French people, including children “probably kidnapped”. The attack perpetrated by Hamas on October…
Covid, the new BA.2.86 variant: “The worst-case scenario would be greater transmissibility”
He has just arrived in France. A first patient infected with the BA.2.86 variant of Sars-CoV-2 was spotted on August 31 in eastern France. While this new mutant has been…
“If Russia had won…”: the worst-case scenario we avoided, by Anne Applebaum
On February 24, 2023, it will be twelve months, fifty-two weeks and three hundred and sixty-five days that the Ukrainian army is fighting. In that time, the national soldiers and…
Global warming: how to adapt to the worst-case scenario
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. In a short sentence, the Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, has shaken up the way of conceiving the plans for adaptation…
The expert on the occupied nuclear power plant: Here is the worst-case scenario
The situation is now described as completely out of control at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya in southeastern Ukraine. – Operational safety is challenged because they do…