It is governments that the coronavirus inhibits, other than it stimulates. No luck, the first category is instead made up of liberal democracies, the second, autocracies. The summer of 2020 will have been a season of defeats for those who have still not ashamed of the heritage of Locke, Montesquieu, or de Tocqueville.

the dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, little worried about the result of ethnic cleansing practiced against the Kurds in Syria, feels invincible : he is escorted by his fleet of war a drilling vessel searching for hydrocarbons in Greek waters…

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