Ticket. This island that tells us what will happen tomorrow.

Life isn't like the La Française des Jeux ad. At least, not for everyone. It's not enough to spin a globe, place your finger at random, and choose your destination. "That's the game, my poor Lucette." And yet, with a passport, time, and especially a little money, the planet quickly becomes a toy store. The Earth even offers us surprises if we look a little.

The Diomede Islands, for example, are two rocks in the Bering Strait. For those who looked out the window during geography class, the Bering Strait is the border and maritime passage between the United States and Russia, between Alaska and Siberia. To the north, far north. With a view of the Arctic Circle. A pretty crazy place with these two islands. To the east, Little Diomede belongs to the United States, with about a hundred inhabitants living there, supplied by helicopter. To the west, Big Diomede is owned by Russia. And while it has long had a military base there, the only human beings who reside there today are members of a weather station and the secret services. A world away.

Freezing temperatures, violent winds, and long periods of snow and ice even freeze the sea between the two islands. The craziest thing is that the Great Diomede is practically a day ahead of the Little Diomede, due to time zones. 9 p.m. precisely, even though they are only 3 km apart. This has earned them the nicknames The Island of Tomorrow (for the Great Diomede) and The Island of Yesterday (for the Little Diomede). American residents therefore only have to cross to find out what will happen tomorrow, before returning. We can therefore either "go back in time" or "project ourselves into the future." It was a few wingbeats away that Trump and Putin began remaking the world on Friday evening. As neighbors...