Posted on 07/09/2024 4:20:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Baguettes, croissants, the Eiffel Tower, a “welfare system to die for,” vin et fromage à l'infini -- cliches are built on degrees of truth, but you can't live on them forever. There is no substitute for reality, and the French need a taste of it.
Intoxicated by years of domestic and foreign policy success, Kierkegaard’s angst now grips the French elite; France under their tutelage is not faring well. And the person in the Elysee Palace? The French president is displaying his insecurity for all to see -- he is desperate to regain his image and what has been lost or taken from France under his watch -- influence, respect, and an inability to extricate themselves from the penumbra of U.S. hegemony. Here is a recent headline from Breitbart describing the president's behavior:
“Italy Blasts ‘Desperate’ Macron for ‘Dangerous’ Rhetoric on Russian-Ukraine War.”
The same article goes on to say how deputy prime minister and leader of the populist League party, Matteo Salvini, wrote on social media: “Sending Italian soldiers to fight outside the EU borders? Follow the obsessions of some dangerous and desperate European leader like Macron? No thanks, never in the name of the League.”
The French Republic today, and not just because of its current “exercised” president, is in a somewhat difficult position compared to yesteryear. France is a nation with a formidable nuclear arsenal, yet it has lost its capacity to influence its geopolitical landscape. Over the last few decades, Paris' former greatness has slipped from its grasp in the world of geopolitical affairs. It has, within the European Union, ceded to Germany its leading position, economically and politically. In fact, it has lost much of the authority needed to affect its internal development. It has apparently decided, in support of Ukraine (“for as long...
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It seems the same disease has infected the USA and Canada. We are all at a crossroads.
Western Civilization lost its faith in God first.
Then Western Civilization lost its faith in itself.
Just about all countries in the West are now in decline, led by leaders who hate Western Civilization.
Sheesh, Fwance cannot hang onto their African colonies...
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Self-loathing liberal/progressive/woke loser “leaders” are leading countries to chaos (at best) or collapse into irrelevance and fascism. What criminal feckless poltroons.
Coalitions of anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectives have united. They have no boundaries. They deceive, destroy, dehumanize, kill. There are evil individuals at the top, in the middle and at ground level of these collectives.
Thank you for the most excellent summary of the “left.”
Next time around, there won’t be a USA to invade France to free it again.
Pinochet did nothing wrong.
Next time around, there won’t be a USA to invade France to free it again.
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Free it from whom? Itself? France is just as likely to fall to factions within its borders than outside of them.
Yes, the new triumvirate: Marxists, media & Islamists is well on its way to destroying our country. Even more painfully clear after Oct. 7th.
Don’t bet against the Bible unless you have a death wish.
France is not at a crossroads.
Eating cheese, drinking Bordeaux, lazy, rude and smelly populace, communist leanings, same as it ever was.
We’ve all gone past the crossroads and into the dark scary alley.
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