As a direct echo to our paper on ‘The Great Rupture,’ which laid out the geopolitical diagnosis confirming the end of automatic transatlantic alignment, this second text by Jérôme Denariez brilliantly decodes the tactical modus operandi of this new era. The author invites us to move beyond an emotional reading of the ‘Trump style’ to see a cold method: ‘useful chaos.’
Here, unpredictability is not a pathology, but a tactical weapon designed to flood the zone, paralyze the adversary, and transform uncertainty into a lever for negotiation (tariffs, NATO).
However, Jérôme Denariez nuances this finding: while this grammar of disruption has historical precedents (from Nixon’s ‘madman theory’ to Roosevelt’s big stick), Trump personalizes it to the extreme. This is where the danger identified by the author lies: this shock strategy offers rapid gains but erodes over time, pushing China toward autonomy and leaving allies without a compass. For Europe, the message of this diptych is scathing: faced with an America that turns disorder into a doctrine, ‘legal comfort’ is no longer enough; it is time to step back into the arena of power dynamics.