Chronicle of an impending vassalage — and what history already tells us about it A fact that press releases conceal because they don't give us a complete picture… but which the calendar reveals: since October 2025, Madagascar crosses a new stage in its rapprochement with Moscow EVERY MONTH. This pace is not that of a maturing partnership… It is that of a window of opportunities that actors are exploiting fully before it closes. The pace of spring November 2025: the president of the National Assembly, Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, spends five days in Moscow discussing energy, mining and fishing. January 2026: Russian Africa Corps instructors — the institutionalized heir of Wagner — come to "train" the Malagasy army. February: Colonel Randrianirina is received for two hours at the Kremlin; an agreement ratified on the 19th covers "all domains" — agriculture, geological prospecting, extraction, health, higher education, security… Phew!!! On the sidelines, an ambition: rehabilitate Diego-Suarez military installations… to install Russian troops there? March: launch of the "Patriotic Awakening of United Madagascar" party, a ceremony complacently broadcast by African Initiative, the Kremlin's influence organ in Africa… And one… Simultaneous creation of a Russian-Malagasy chamber of commerce… And two. April: delivery of BMP-3 armored vehicles, weapons, ammunition, combat uniforms… And three… May: the Prime Minister meets Sergey Shoygu in Moscow; announcement of a "common economic zone", Russian oil depots, diversification of fuel imports. And four… and five… and six… With, in the shadows, the establishment of Russian bank PSB — an institution under sanctions that finances Russian war efforts — to settle purchases of oil and military equipment… and seven… Military, political, informational