What follows is the second part of
my answer to an online friend about the so-called Global Shift and France. As the
conversation was held in French, the present article is the English translation
of my response. In the beginning, readers will go through the initial comment
and the questions; my reply starts with a brief flashback to my past and to my
familiarization with France, topics that I had to state so that every person
realizes best the foundations of my approach. The already published first part
can be found in three languages (French, Russian and English) here:
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сдвиг - Changement Global - Global Shift
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Comment and questions
Hello! I hope you're
doing well! Thank you for following my page. I wanted to address a topic that
raises some questions. Have you heard about the debates surrounding the Global
Shift or noticed the recent economic changes? Do you have any strategies for
managing these changes? Feel free to share your thoughts!
My
response
Thank you for offering
me the chance to produce interesting articles out of my response to your
question!
The previously sent
answer was indeed only the first half of my response; I complete my reply with
the second half. I always need to write on two occasions every time someone
(like you on this occasion) asks me about a topic on which I never wrote in the
past. I come up with a first text, which sets the foundations of my approach; I
then offer myself a brief time to eventually reconsider and finally build the
rest in my mind. Perhaps you already felt this, since there was nothing about
France in the first part (my first response).
I ended my previous
text with Prophet Jonah and the Men of Nineveh, and I will start with them now;
they are said not to make a distinction between their right and left hand
("more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their
right hand from their left"). This is exactly my method; the foundations
reflect my right hand (part) and the construction of my approach consists in my
left hand (part).
Since you are French,
you certainly refer to debates about the Global Shift and France also hinting
at the present economic-financial circumstances of the country. And when you
ask my thoughts about potential strategies to manage the said changes, you surely
think of France.
I believe that no
comprehensive proposal for eventual strategies can be possibly reached, in the
advent of a major decline of a country, without
a- establishing a
correct assessment of the situation,
b- understanding the
modalities of the fall,
c- identifying the true
enemies, and
d- finding out
resourceful strategies to turn the tables on the earlier identified enemies.
In the present part of
my response, I will discuss the first two points, also offering to you a
flashback to my background.
1-
Flashback to my past and to my familiarization with France
Although I have lived
in many countries of Asia, Africa and Europe after I left France in 1981 and in
spite of my very few visits (the last being in August 1999), I did indeed keep
monitoring the various socioeconomic and political developments that have taken
place there over the past decades. I do follow several debates and I also
listen attentively to interviews or conferences. The list would be long if I
started to enumerate.
With the exception of
few people, I believe you are taken in a maelstrom of confusion and you cannot
take distance from it, so that you see what truly happened in France over the
past 50 years. Even before starting my postgraduate studies in France (1978) I
was closely monitoring the political developments and the intellectual–academic
debates, even more so because I used to attend courses of French Language and
Literature at the French Institute of Athens, after having attended for six years
(1968-1974) the French High School of Athens (Lycée Léonin).
Although I was
certainly in favor of Jacques Chaban Delmas in 1974, I gradually started
sympathizing Jacques Chirac as prime minister; yet, in the second run of the 1981
presidential elections, I preferred Francois Mitterrand to Giscard d'Estaing
(so much I detested the latter in every sense). But Mitterrand was extremely wrong
not to understand what the combined tenures of M. Thatcher and R. Reagan meant
in the West; he unnecessarily wasted time, resources, and vision with the
disastrous Pierre Mauroy government to end up with the sarcastic comment of the
cover page of L'Express "Capri, c'est fini" (1984).
All the same, France
was still nevertheless the country that set up Minitel as early as the 1980s,
when something like that was absolutely unconceivable for China, India, Brazil,
and even the USSR. So, in brief, I was very much disappointed with Jacques
Chirac and Alain Juppé ("le meilleur d'entre-nous"!!); and I will give
you right now the exact date when I realized that France was facing very serious
problems. But keep always Minitel in mind! It did exist in the past and this
tells us much.
In October 2001, I was
living in Cairo, working for an English-medium publication; I visited the
Commercial Attaché of the French Embassy in his office in Zamalek and I had an
interview with him as regards the development and the implementation of the
internet in France. He was very sincere and that's why one of his sentences
shocked me:
- But do not think that
there is in France the equivalent of a Microsoft!
Having had Charles de
Gaulle as my hero when a 8-9 years old child, back in Athens in 1964-65, and
having adored his constructive travels to and relations with the USSR and China,
I felt automatically that France's independence was in jeopardy; if this
situation continued it would surely end up in a calamitous manner. It was clear
to me that this issue would also be bad for many other countries, notably
Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Japan, Italy and Mexico to name a few.
2-
France: the modalities of the fall and an assessment of the situation
- Why do I not mention
England among the previous countries?
- Because after the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the US (1865), the English managed to gradually
infiltrate in the American administration, economy and higher education, thus
forming a hidden state within the American state, and this makes in a way the
American superiority an indirect form of English superiority. I believe that
there were several American presidents, who deeply understood the problem, but
any attempt to solve it can be lethal; that's why the problem is perpetuated
and we have to always take it into consideration. This is actually the major
problem that Donald Trump is facing now; he must exterminate every single
secret agent and pawn of the English cholera in order to duly and fully control
the so-called "deep state".
The failure of the
so-called Chiraquie in 2007 and the election of the criminal Sarkozy, a true enemy
of France, as president of the country constituted for me the conclusive
evidence that, in a globally shifting world condition, Paris was rapidly
becoming the capital of a second class state. Yes, there was still the UNSC
Veto power, but let's be frank! This was indeed reduced to an ineffective and
therefore meaningless relic from the past. Do I exaggerate?
No! What happened after
the best speech ever given at the UNSC?
(I mean of course the
discourse made by Dominique de Villepin in early 2003)
The answer is simple:
"nothing"! France only threatened to use the Veto!
The Americans invaded
Iraq, which meant that the forces that controlled the US at the time did not
give a damn of the international body and that they intended to continue the
implementation of their nefarious agenda.
Still, back in 2003,
there were some intelligent people in France who used to utter the slogan:
Paris – Berlin – Moscou – Pékin.
https://www.nouvelobs.com/monde/20030211.OBS6617/irak-face-aux-usa-l-axe-paris-berlin-moscou-pekin.html
But all this and much
more was buried in 2007 with the idiotic vote in favor of the "Gnome de
Paris" (as I used to call that villainous trash, whereas others called him
"Gnome de Neuilly"). https://barro.blog4ever.com/lettre-a-alain
With Sarkozy, Hollande
and Macron, France became an item to expose in the purely hypothetical but undeniably
real Museum of Defunct Nations! No! Please, do not worry! Ur, Uruk, Eridu, the
other early Sumerian kingdoms, and Ancient Elam are exposed in a separate hall!
I already told you
about my meeting with the French Commercial Attaché in Cairo back in 2001.
But major astonishment
awaited me back in 2019 (I think), when I read that, if the entire internet is
down worldwide, Russia was already able to run it nationwide independently (for
Russian servers), and that, in doing so, Moscow was the second state in the
world after China to be able to act accordingly.
It was then only normal
for me to ask:
-why not France too?
And it goes without saying
that the same question can be asked about many other countries.
Then, one should also
ask:
-why is there not a
French Google, a French Amazon, etc., etc.?
The answer is simple:
the failure of the Chiraquie and the either alien or incompetent successors of
Chirac.
There is still worse: the
dynamics of the various components of the world economy, the interconnection
among some of them (: BRICS), the gradual de-dollarization, the internal
conflict within the Western World, and the invariable inertia of France have
generated a new world condition in which France, in striking difference from
the last days of the second tenure of Chirac, appears to be already a third
class state facing the risk of falling further into an even lower class, if no
remedy is administered at once.
What do I mean?
First, I don't take
into consideration the EU, because it is not a state, nor will it ever become
one.
Second, speaking as of
2025, it would reasonable to view the world's 30 major powers ranked as per
below (all parameters combined):
First rank states: US,
China, and Russia
Second rank states:
India, Japan, Brazil, and Germany
Third rank states:
France, England, Italy, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, South Korea, and Iran
Fourth rank states:
Spain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Taiwan, Poland, Nigeria,
Canada, Australia, Holland, Thailand, Argentina, and Malaysia
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
and
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purchasing-power-parity/country-comparison/
However, I believe that
the entire political, financial, academic, and intellectual elite of France was
increasingly confused after the departure of Charles de Gaulle, and the French
people was misled being polarized around wrong dilemmas, fake promises, and
false representations of the international reality. This situation resembles a
boat which, sailing in the river without an engine and being pushed by the flow,
entered a lake but lost its destination and stopped.
That's why many
commentators, intellectuals, statesmen and politicians in today's France evoke
Charles de Gaulle in the desperate hope that, by imitating his example, they
will see the country making a major comeback. Unfortunately, this will not
occur because now it is too late; this eventuality would stand a chance back in
the early 1970s, when quite pathetically and absurdly under Georges Pompidou
France accepted England in the then European Community.
It is only normal for a
French today to find Chirac better than Macron, Mitterrand better than
Hollande, Giscard better than Sarkozy, Pompidou better than all of them, and de
Gaulle better than Pompidou; but this cannot lead anywhere, because the
destruction caused, the damages triggered, the opportunities lost, the changes
occurred, and the situation emerged forces a perspicacious observer to realize
that France's possibilities to be reinstated, reconstituted, reasserted and
reinvented go far beyond the temporal limits of the Fifth Republic, and of all
regimes attested in France after the Congress of Vienna.
Tomorrow, in Unit 2 of
my Second Response, I will explain to you why the person who will take France
out of the present nightmare must wear the boot of Napoleon in his right leg
and the escarping of Louis XIV in his left leg.
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