Friday, April 24, 2026

Modern French Anti-Americanism Regarding World War II: Distrust for Yankee G.I.s Coupled with Adulation for the Red Army

Many Americans don't realize it — not long ago, an American friend in Paris almost fell out of his chair when he heard an example of the distressing (and almost unbelievable) bigotry — but another common aspect of anti-Americanism in Europe is to denigrate the U.S. participation in World War II. Which occurs by contrasting the Yanks' role in defeating the Axis (don't you know?! It was only for greed!) with the Red Army's deeds, which are duly lionized. To the heavens.

I recently took this bull by the horns and wrote the following, which was published on one conservative website and, in shortened form, in one weekly newsletter. Both are based on my (English-language) post about the 70th anniversary of Stalin's death from three years ago, Some Mind-Boggling Revelations About Stalin, World War II, and a Century of Russian History:
In defending Greece at Thermopylae in 480 BC, 300 Spartans valiantly resisted the Persian army of Xerxes I for three days before falling as martyrs. 

Yet, it is not the tens of thousands of Xerxes' Persian soldiers who are hailed as brave, as heroes (even in Iran); it is the Spartans of King Leonidas who lost "only" a few hundred warriors.

Which brings us back to France in the 20th and 21st centuries, where we are constantly told that because the USSR supposedly lost some 50 times more lives than America during World War II, Europe owes the Russians more gratitude than the Americans.

In fact, I have never heard a conversation in France about the war without someone saying: "But les Ricains (the Yanks — short for les (Amé)ricains) did it only for their own (economic) interests." 

We are told that this is in no way pure, unadulterated anti-Americanism. Really? Are you sure about that? Think about it: In the context of this global conflict, how could anyone say—rightly or wrongly—that "the Belgians or the French or the Danes or the Filipinos fought the war for… their own interests?" It's nonsense. Utter nonsense. In fact, what it is is a charge used by the left only against the free-market capitalists.

Following Évelyne Joslain's article on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe last summer (Les 4 Vérités # 1495), one reader reacted with outrage by what he called a "rewriting of history": "The Anglo-American troops," he insisted, "weren't heroes but amateurs fighting for their country's economic interests and nothing else." 

In the 1940s, more than 16 million Americans served in the armed forces. Do you really believe that there were tens of millions of parents in America who said, "Yes, beloved son of ours: leave our home (our Home Sweet Home), put on the uniform, get your gun, we want you to risk your life so Coca-Cola can sell more bottles to the French"?!

Many French people don't seem to realize it, but if anyone is fooled by this rewriting of history, it's none other than themselves: with leftist lies, everything is turned upside down.

The Americans, not the communists, are accused of waging war for their "own interests." While the peoples—nay, while entire nations—who are praised for their innate courage are the Soviets, not the Yanks. 

Besides, have you noticed, whatever they do, the Americans can't win. ("Damned if you do, damned if you don't.") When they go to war, it's for nefarious reasons. And when they try to stay out of war, they are condemned for their neutrality. 

"The numbers speak for themselves," claims Jean-Marie Pichard: "Total US losses in World War II were roughly one-fiftieth of Russian losses (military and civilian combined)." Doesn't Monsieur Pichard know why statistics are comparable to a bikini? Because both reveal a lot, but both conceal the essential.

Isn't the truth that the Soviet carnage in the Great Patriotic War was entirely due to the dictators' inclination to have no regard whatsoever for the lives of their subjects and to consider these soldiers, often poorly trained and "sent to their deaths", as cannon fodder (just like, 2500 years earlier, the Persians of Xerxes)?

Germany and Japan also lost many lives (far more than the USA or the UK) — should we also praise the cultures of the SS and the fanatical Japanese above that of the Republican and Democratic culture of the GIs (and of their Tommy cousins)?! 

Furthermore, is Monsieur Pichard aware that among the millions of Soviet soldiers who, according to his worshipful prose, died because of "the Red Army's relentless defense of the homeland," hundreds of thousands lost their lives, shot and machine-gunned by… the very same Red Army? Yes, Order No. 227 from the Red Tyrant of the Kremlin forbade soldiers from retreating, ordering the troops behind them to coldly shoot their comrades if they disobeyed and returned, defeated, to the "safety" of the Soviet lines. And how many hundreds of thousands of "valiant" soldiers were in fact prisoners from the Gulags removed forcefully to join the Soviet army?

As for the "Russian steamroller [that] was inexorably advancing eastward," wasn't it due to Uncle Sam's 400,000 jeeps and trucks? This is the opinion of historian Antony Beevor, who writes that "Had it not been for the American trucks provided under Lend-lease, the Red Army would never have made it to Berlin before the Americans." 

In their memoirs, Averell Harriman and Nikita Khrushchev both quoted Stalin himself: "America is a country of machines; without these machines, we would lose this war."

Jean-Marie Pichard asserts that history should not be rewritten. Moreover, his contempt for the American people compels him to refer to their pre-war "pro-Hitler lobby" (sic). But in that perspective, one could hardly find a lobby that was more pro-Hitler than... the USSR of the "Little Father of the Peoples." 

Indeed, it's a rewriting of history to claim that the war began when Hitler invaded Poland. It's more accurate to say that the war (aka Stalin's War) began when Hitler and Stalin jointly invaded Poland, the Wehrmacht the western part, and the Red Army (two weeks later) the eastern part. Yes, for the first two years of the conflict, the Nazis and the Communists were allies. The truth is that the war would never have started without Stalin's approval and participation. 

Let's be realistic — the only ones who waged war for their own interests (economic or otherwise) were dictatorships: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan, along with—yes—Communist Russia. 

You do not have to be of the Jewish faith to agree with the Talmudic saying: 
"If you are kind to the cruel, you will eventually become cruel to the kind."
This explains all Leftist politics in general, in any country, and is particularly true of the French indulgence towards the Soviets in the 1940s, contrasted with the mistrust of the supposedly treacherous Americans.
 
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

A Historic Power Imbalance? The Left's use of the word “problematic” does not explicitly state the problem; We are to intuit it — There is a kind of délicatesse involved…

When my fellow academics refer — as they started doing a great deal toward the end of the last century — to the problematics of a topic, they are listing not annoying things that need to be fixed but intriguing twists that deserve extended consideration. 
Investigating the origins of the word "problem(atic/al)" — the adjective of which has recently enjoyed quite a renaissance among the Left — in the New York Times, the Columbia University linguist John McWhorter asks the question, What’s So Problematic About ‘Problematic’? 

These days, the plural “problematics,” as wrinkle-browed exegesis of complex academic issues, is a marginal term. So is the straightforward sense of “problematic” meaning “full of problems,” as in “Sunflowers are problematic as a large-scale crop.” The word is in wide circulation, but its current incarnation is as a euphemism for a very specific kind of problem or a very specific kind of person.

Its newest usage is a way to say, without saying, that something is perpetuating a historic power imbalance — especially when it comes to race. An example is “Your fave is problematic,” a catchphrase that got around for a while starting in the 2010s as a way to call out fandom for people whose values are deemed to be incorrect. Fandom for the television host Trevor Noah earned this designation when a series of his old tweets, including coarse jokes about subjects such as “fat chicks,” surfaced in 2015. The most recent star deemed to be problematic was Patti LuPone, who in a recent New Yorker article referred with rather acrid dismissal to two Black stage stars.

It’s significant that this use of the word “problematic” does not explicitly state the problem. We are to intuit it. There is a kind of délicatesse in this, a way to circumvent the thorny national conversation about concepts such as intersectionality, wokeness and cancel culture. That impulse toward euphemism, too, is a natural part of language. And it is no less clear as a result.

In other words, what is problematic is something to feel ashamed about. I.e., it has something to do with "racism" and (what is preposterously called) America's "original sin." Typical leftist mentality…

Note to leftists: all societies throughout history have had historic power imbalances (although rarely racial). Nothing did more to correct these than America's capitalism — a synonym for the free market.

 … As for the ancient Greeks, the transformation of a word that meant to propose something would surely have struck them as otherworldly. But then again, “nice” started out meaning “ignorant.” In any language, plus ça change … well, the more they change.

One last problem for consideration: You might imagine someone of Harding’s era would recognize the expression “no problem,” but it didn’t really come into circulation until the 1960s. Sometimes what seem like very ordinary words or expressions are recent coinages. My favorite example is “oink.” The first written “oink” is in 1910. Before that, a child who was asked what pigs say would probably answer either “squeak” or “wee-wee,” as in the little piggy that went “wee-wee-wee all the way home.” And if you think about it, “wee-wee” is closer to the sound of pigs than “oink.” Bring back “wee-wee”!

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Friday, April 17, 2026

In the Beginning, America's Democrats and the Europeans Alike Strongly Supported Israel; What Happened? The Jews Had the Gall to Stop Acting Like Communists


What the heck has happened to the Democratic Party? 

Over at PJ Media, Rick Moran asks one heck of a question in his article about Graham Platner (i.e., The Man With the Nazi Tattoo [Who] Is Blowing up the Democratic Party). The question could also be applied to (West) Europeans, whose countries were steadfast allies of Israel immediately after its creation and for two to three decades after that. (Remember the Suez Crisis of 1956, with Brits and Frenchmen allied with the Israelis against the Egyptians?)
What has happened to the Democratic Party? The strong support for the creation of the state of Israel in the immediate aftermath of World War II by Democrats convinced Harry Truman to support the motion at the UN for Israel's creation (among other factors). About 70% of American Jews either identify as Democrats or vote Democratic in elections.
The answer may be surprising to some, but the fact of the matter is that shows the entire planet's affection for social democracy, democratic socialism, or socialism pure and simple, or whatever you want to call it, and to have each country's citizens treated as welfare beneficiaries. And for the first decades of its life, the Jewish state acted more as a communist nation. (Toda to Sister Sarah for the Instalink.)

Remember the kibbutzes? These were collective communities, many of whose leaders stood in awe of Comrade Stalin, as they did around the world — the degree of far leftism in the Wikipedia article on kibbutzes will make your eyes roll — and I know of Danish friends, including a former girlfriend, who went over to Israel for several months to live the Kibbutz experience, meeting volunteers from around the world. Indeed, Denmark was full of Maoists in the 1960s, which formed collectives — groups of (mostly but not only) young people dedicated to turning an apartment building or a mansion into a communistic mini-paradise where the many inhabitants share meals and chores — some of which survive to this day. 

The general assumption is that leftists worldwide started turning on Israel after — and because of — 1967's six-day war, but what is unmentioned is that (although the modern state of Israel was founded largely by secular Jews — war hero Moshe Dayan, for instance, was apparently unconcerned about the symbolism of liberating the Wailing Wall and it was only under pressure that, in full uniform, he left a note among its cracks) by this time Israelis were largely in the process of turning away from the kibbutz experience, i.e., what appeared to many left-wingers around the world as betraying the Marxist principles leading to a bright new future around the world. 

As Philippe Karsenty pointed out a few weeks ago (when the spokesman of le Comité Trump France was asked why so many Jewish VIPs in France rallied to the defense of the government television's anti-semites), 
 … these Jewish figures … are first and foremost left-wing before they are Jewish. And there is nothing more dangerous for the Jewish people and Israel than left-wing Jews. They are the ones who have led Israel to its worst defeats, to its worst compromises. They are the ones who got one of the worst American presidents toward Israel elected: Barack Obama. They are the ones who got the Islamist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York… Left-wing Jews are narcissistic masochists, corrupt financially or intellectually.

 … [The al-Durah] affair illustrates the profound bad faith of the left and its conspiracy-minded cronies who claim that the French press is serving "Zionist propaganda." In reality, from France Télévisions to Le Monde, including Libération and L'Humanité, the overwhelming majority of the media landscape adopts, on the contrary, an obsessively hateful stance towards Israel, as everyone could see after the massacre of October 7th. … Leftism is a mental illness!
Indeed, Israel itself is lucky — as is the world — that over the decades, the country's inhabitants turned away from the leftist direction, and, to a certain extent, rediscovered its religious roots. See Dennis Prager's notes in his Rational Bible books for Deuteronomy 4:28 (pages 57-58, see below), where he mentions Jewish non-believers through the centuries and through the millennia, Jews (among them Karl Marx) who were lured by other, secular, religions: the founder of Prager University explains "What Happens When Jews Abandon God."

Update: Check the comments section to see the prediction that Da Tech Guy made as far back as 10 years ago…




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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Homophobia? What Nobody Tells You About the "Hate Crime" of Leaving Skid Marks on Rainbow Crosswalks

When you think about it — and hardly more than for 15 seconds or so, if that long — then the charge that kids and adults alike leaving skid marks on rainbow crosswalks represents some kind of anti-gay homophobic hate crime turns out to be little more than nonsense.

Last Saturday (as mentioned a couple of days ago), Instapundit's Ed Driscoll linked to Powerline's memes in the Week in Pictures — while Sarah Hoyt did something similar by linking to… Sarah Hoyt's personal website.
With regards to Powerline, among this week's cartoons was the one at the very top of this page. The main message of the joke is quite serious: that the woke PC leftist drama queens go berserk over one type of "crime" — is it even a misdemeanor?! — while, conversely, being open to and understanding — certainly if the person belongs to the correct oppressed minority — to far worse types of crime, not excluding (attempted) murder.

But another, perhaps lesser, issue is that — again, when you think about it — the skid mark-leaving on rainbow crosswalks has nothing to do about homophobia or transphobia (or whatever other phobias you want to talk about) in the first place.

It is about kids, or teens, or tweens — and even adults (young or otherwise) — having fun. Who knows? Maybe a number of the skid mark-leavers have been gay themselves?

Leaving grayish skid marks upon gray asphalt is simply not as noticeable as upon parts of roads which are painted in vivid and brillant colors (is it okay we say flamboyant colors or is that also homophobic?) — and even, with the rainbow motif, in multi-colored stripes.

There are only bike riders and car drivers "ruining" the rainbow display and that, in dramatic fashion with their wheels; there don't seem to be many "far-right" pedestrians coming with paint or tar or anything to pour something over the display…

Whatever the colors' symbolism is supposed to represent is simply not of much interest — if any interest whatsoever — to these people and what matters to them, the excitement of leaving one's mark. 

If I am wrong, then by all means make your case in the comments…

But if Dennis Prager is to be believed, on the other hand, LGBTQ+ 'Pride' Is Totalitarian:

The vast majority of Americans believe in tolerance of LGBTQ+ individuals but not in organizations expressing pride in them.

Why is this?

Because "Pride" is not about tolerance. "Pride" is totalitarian.

Tolerance is about behavior. "Pride" is about thought.

If the founder of Prager University is likewise wrong, feel free, again, to tell him/us so in the comments section…

Related: • The "Racism" Invective: How the Left's Mindset Works  

• Double Standards: How Can One Insist That Illegals and/or Anchor Babies Are U.S. Citizens If Indeed "We Live on Stolen Land"?!) 

 
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Monday, April 13, 2026

Regarding the Islamic World's History of Slavery, a NYT Book Review Tries to Be Nice and Understanding

As The New York Times reviews Justin Marozzi's CAPTIVES AND COMPANIONS: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World, America's "paper of record" in no way resorts to the same kind of common depictions reserved for slavery in the United States as a country or region flagrantly condemnable (what am I saying? Damnable!) and abhorrent while ranting about the (ridiculous) concept of America's "original sin." 

No, it turns out that NYT reviewer Thomas Meaney wants to be tolerant, contextualize, and put things into perspective, condemning Western "myths" and "lazy generalizations" while drawing comparisons (or contrasts) with abominable Westerners such as George W Bush and Belgium's King Leopold II (his case can hardly be denied), not to mention… the patriarch Abraham. 

Nothing in his review about the generalized castration of the Muslims' male slaves or the fact that the Transatlantic slave trade pales in comparison to the fate of Africans forced to reach their Arab masters' regions, given that the "brutal" Middle Passage, however horrific, consisted, after all, of lying still in a ship (certainly, inhumanely, like sardines and in their own filth), which is still hardly comparable with the fate of Africans forced to spend weeks walking the entire way to their Arab destinations and that, indeed, across one of the hottest regions in the world, i.e., the Sahara desert (which, needless to say, allowed for more — for far more — deaths).

As it happens, the history about the Muslims' slavery in the Arab regions never seems to be condemned outright in the NYT's book review, but boils down to asking a simple question: How Should We View the Middle East’s Legacy of Slavery?

As … the British journalist Justin Marozzi … showcases the many types of enslaved people — eunuchs, harem women, mercenaries, unpaid laborers — who populated a region that stretches across modern-day Libya, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia, all the while demonstrating how the realities of bondage in these places differed from the more familiar chattel slavery of the West.

Until the late 19th century, slavery was a near universal institution, though it was practiced in so many varieties that the word could hardly encompass them all. Marozzi’s account begins in 632 with a “free-spirited woman” in the first caliphate who took a slave to bed, assuming it was her right as set forth in the Quran.

 … Marozzi refers to his scope of interest as the “Islamic world,” apparently because slavery, like so many other iniquities, was justified by the existence of rules found in religious codes. The Prophet Muhammad, like Abraham, was an untroubled owner of slaves, and “the legitimacy of the slavery, as pronounced upon by the Quran, is not up for debate,” Marozzi writes.

 … Most enslaved people over the span of the centuries were held in bondage for life, and treated inhumanely by their owners.

How significant was racism in the practice of slavery by Muslims? Marozzi suggests that the advent of racial prejudice in the Middle East might have preceded the rise of modern European racism by several centuries.

 … Marozzi … appears to know how easy it is to descend into lazy generalizations about Islamic culture, and, in doing so, to prop up Western self-regard. Nevertheless, Marozzi appears reluctant to wriggle free from some of the most robust myths of the Victorian age.

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

French Media Outlet: "Today, Donald Trump is the most rational and the most Cartesian national leader on the planet"


Regarding The War in Iran, Philippe Karsenty has been a guest on various media outlets, from BFMTV's debate shows — where the spokesman of le Comité Trump France says that "the degree of Israel's infiltration of Iran's secret services is quite impressive" — to Europe 1 — where Philippe Karsenty affirms that "today, Donald Trump is the most rational and the most Cartesian leader on the planet." (Merci à Sarah pour l'Instalien.)
   
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

No Pilot Left Behind: CSAR Details Explained — Code Sandy, Code King, & Code Jolly

Belgium's RTBF has an article explaining exactly how a CSAR operation, divided into three mission components, is carried out. It can be likened to Sarah Hoyt's link to Behind the Black's  post, where one Cap'n Steeve proceeds to give what is probably the best explanations of the history of the missions (and SERE) since Vietnam, as the 25-minute video is recounted by a former military pilot (and current civilian pilot) himself. (“Will you be worth the trip?”: If you can get to the end without tearing up — as the captain does — then you are more stoic than I am…) As for the RTBF link, it is in French, but do go there for plenty of dramatic photos and videos from Iran's Zagros mountain range.
 … Combat SAR (or CSAR), for Combat Search and Rescue … is a distinct mission within the art of warfare, for it seamlessly blends aviation, special forces, intelligence, air command, electronic warfare, and emergency medicine into a single, unified operation. …

Code Sandy

 … A legacy of the rescue missions of the Vietnam War, "Sandy" designates the escort and coordination aircraft that provide protection during recovery operations. Historically, this role was first filled by the A-1 Skyraider, and later—in the more recent tradition of the U.S. Air Force—most often by the A-10 Thunderbolt II, with F-15s and other MQ-9 drones also providing support. 

Their mission: to locate targets, keep the enemy at bay, coordinate the scene, conduct route reconnaissance, escort rescue helicopters, and—if necessary—deliver immediate fire support. U.S. Air Force manuals continue to explicitly associate the A-10 with "Sandy"-type missions and rescue escort duties. Sandy serves, in a sense, as both the sword and the forward-deployed "eye" of the mission. It does not perform the extraction itself, but rather makes that extraction possible—most notably by establishing the "Sandbox" security perimeter.

Code King

Thereafter comes the "King," referring to the HC-130J Combat King II—the aircraft specifically designed for personnel recovery missions (though the MC-130J Commando II may also be utilized). It serves as a command and control platform, extends the operational radius of the recovery force, and—most importantly—is capable of mid-air refueling for rescue helicopters; this capability is essential when an extraction must be executed over long distances, at night, at low altitudes, and without a second chance. The U.S. Air Force specifically defines it as a platform dedicated to personnel recovery missions, command and control, and helicopter refueling. King constitutes the logistical and tactical backbone of the operation; it is its central element.

Code Jolly

Finally, "Jolly" refers to the rescue helicopter itself. Today, the name is borne by the HH-60W Jolly Green II, the successor to the Pave Hawk. It is the aircraft designed to enter contested zones—by day or by night—to recover an isolated pilot or commando, pick up a rescue team, and make a rapid exit. The U.S. Air Force explicitly positions the HH-60W as its dedicated Combat Search and Rescue helicopter, engineered to recover isolated personnel in hostile or denied territory. To this end, it is equipped with a FLIR (Forward-Looking Infrared) system—an advanced thermal imaging system that enables the crew to detect and identify targets or individuals, even in total darkness, through smoke, or in adverse weather conditions.

Aboard the Jollys, one also finds the mission’s other—human—heart: the the Pararescuemen—the famous PJs—nicknamed Guardian Angels. Their role extends far beyond the image of a rescuer dangling from a hoist. The Guardian Angel structure is dedicated to Personnel Recovery across the entire spectrum of operations, and PJs are trained to conduct rescues under fire, stabilize the wounded, infiltrate, exfiltrate, survive, and improvise in degraded environments. It is they who transform a technical recovery into a safe return.
Over at The Telegraph,  and  add that 
Experts say a rescue mission of this nature is likely to require 24 “pararescue” operatives and two Black Hawk helicopters, assisted by in-air refuelling aircraft to extend their reach over Iran.

US pararescue operatives receive training in combat medical care, evacuation, air-dive physiology, and additional skills to survive in chemical or nuclear environments.

On finding a casualty, they may need to provide him with medical treatment in place to ensure he survives the journey to safety.

“Harrowing and massively dangerous is an understatement,” one former pararescue commander told CBS News.

RTBF:
Lorsqu'un pilote américain tombe derrière les lignes ennemies, l’armée ne lance pas seulement un sauvetage, elle déclenche une mécanique complexe mêlant repérage, commandement aérien, hélicoptères de récupération, avions d’escorte et forces spécialisées. C’est ce que l’on appelle une mission CSAR, pour Combat Search and Rescue. L’opération menée pour récupérer le pilote tombé en Iran en a rappelé la logique implacable : aller chercher un homme isolé avant que l’ennemi ne mette la main dessus. 
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Double Standards: How Can One Insist That Illegals and/or Anchor Babies Are U.S. Citizens If "We Live on Stolen Land"?!

If we are to be believe the "truthful" statement that it turns out that "we live on stolen land" — Why is it ever always and only about the USA? Why never about Canada? Why never about Mexico? How about South America? How about innumerable countries in Europe? And Asia? And the entire planet? — then how can one insist that it is unfair if illegal aliens are not rewarded with American documents and that it is unfair if anchor babies are not treated as de facto U.S. citizens? 

How on Earth does that make sense?! 

It is Saturday, so Instapundit's Ed Driscoll is linking to Powerline's memes in its Week in 
pictures — something you should also check out every week on Sarah Hoyt's personal website. (This week, check out the mirror on the wall and Schrödinger's cat while the blackest humor is found at the answer to the question, "Why Is It Easy to Stay Thin in Japan?"; Update: thanks for the Instalink.) 
 

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Friday, April 10, 2026

The Road to Serfdom: No longer up to foreigners to assimilate to the French, but up to the French to assimilate to foreigners — Muslims in French Leftist Party Trying to Impose the Wearing of the Veil Inside the City Council

Making the Left's red-green alliance with Islam ever more obvious — as well as both movements' hatred of Western values and the country in which they live — France's Causeur magazine harkens back to an influential 20th century book to ask whether the country's paramount leftist party isn't voici the road to serfdom. Indeed, writes Benjamin Edgard in Chalon-sur-Saône: la République se vit à tête découverte,
Three centuries [after the publication of Persian Letters by Montesquieu in 1721], it is no longer up to foreigners to assimilate to the French, but up to the French to assimilate to foreigners.

Lamia Sabrina Sari and Damien Saley, two elected officials from the far-left La France Insoumise  (LFI) party, attempted to impose the wearing of the veil within Chalon-sur-Saône's city council.

It turns out that 

The aborted attempt by LFI elected officials to impose the wearing of the veil at the Chalon-sur-Saône city council is a mad continuation of their totalizing and deadly project to create a "New France." 

This is in 180º contrast to the Left's attitude towards Christianity, which was exemplified, as far back as the year 1900, by

the mayor of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Eugène Thomas, banning the wearing of the cassock throughout the entire city, “considering that the distinctive attire in which members of the clergy deck themselves out may serve to bolster their authority over a certain segment of society.” Five years later, during the parliamentary debates on the Law on Secularism [in 1905], a Radical-Socialist deputy, Charles Chabert, proposed an amendment to ban the wearing of the cassock in order to prevent disturbances to public order. 

The ban on wearing the veil falls within a context entirely different from that of the cassock. It no longer concerns the same religion, nor the same socio-cultural reality. Today, the issue involves entire foreign communities importing into France a different culture, different customs, different ways of life, and different ways of being.

 … "By severing the head of Louis XVI, the Revolution severed the heads of all fathers. There is no longer any family today; there are only individuals," warned Balzac in his novel Memoirs of Two Young Married Women. By atomizing society, isolating individuals, and multiplying contractual and commercial ties, the French revolutionary legacy fosters individualization and the dissolution of the social fabric. 

The Left's Poison

LFI thus takes a seat at the table of another civilization—Islam—leveraging the paradoxes of the Western individual to construct a new historical narrative, a new France. It invents a France that has never existed, much in the same way the Bolsheviks invented the proletariat in Russia to bring about their communist ideology. LFI attempts an improbable synthesis of two histories: Western history—marked by the invention of the individual—intertwined with a history of Eastern subjugation and submission. It then employs the battering ram of individualism to breach the ramparts of the French citadel and subject it to the dictates of Islam. In the name of the individual, the wearing of the veil is deemed legitimate; in the name of la liberté, Islam is granted every right within France.

 … Today, the instincts of every elected official within La France Insoumise yearns for an abstract France; a France pursuing a malignant destiny; a France engaged in self-destruction through moral self-loathing and the erosion of its own instincts—driven by a shame of being themselves, by a guilt over simply being French. La France Insoumise represents a France that views the foreigner as the salvation of the very idea of ​​France, rather than recognizing the greatness of its country within its own people. La France Insoumise does not love the French people; it does not love French reality; it is animated by a deep-seated resentment against everything that is concretely French. 
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Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Self-Serving "Opinion" in France: Donald Trump’s (or Netanyahu’s) policies are dictated by emotion, say French VIPs, while Emmanuel Macron’s are grounded in reason

 
One certain brand of politics is dictated by nothing other than emotions, many French VIPs assert, while a certain other brand is grounded in reason. 

It is Trump’s brand (and Netanyahu’s) that — by the sheerest of chances — falls into the first category, whereas it is Macron’s brand that—here, too, by the strangest of coincidences — falls into the second.
 
Geopolitical analyst Dominique Moïsi has just published a book … with an evocative title : Le triangle des passions du monde (which is a sequel to his previous book, La géopolitique de l’émotion). In Moïsi’s work … an occasionally pedantic intellectual veneer struggles to conceal a simplistic thesis: that the politics of Donald Trump (or those of Netanyahu) are dictated by emotions, whereas those of Emmanuel Macron are grounded in reason.

 … This anti-American — and, by extension, anti-Israeli — "tune" reigns supreme today, virtually unchallenged across the entire French media landscape. "The America of Omaha Beach exists no more!" declares Moïsi at the Ouest France daily, imagining a “Donald Trump strolling along the beaches of Normandy [who] would have reacted with a mixture of cynicism, vulgarity, and brutality, asking: 'But why did we spill American blood for this decadent continent—with its obsolete principles—which betrays us at every opportunity?'"  In truth, this portrayal of a cynical and brutal Trump reveals just as much about the passions driving this French geopolitical analyst and his colleagues — at the Quai d’Orsay and within the mainstream media — as it does about the actual object of their detestation.

 … If … Donald Trump’s United States acts in accordance with its own interests, it is because states — as everyone knows — have nothing but interests… Yet this did not prevent Trump from taking the risk of jeopardizing the American economy in a determined attempt to bring down the Mullahs’ regime — whereas Emmanuel Macron made a point of reassuring the Mullahs as early as February 28th that he had been unaware of the Israeli-American operation… out of courage, no doubt.

 … Indeed, France ultimately came around, nolens volens, to Donald Trump’s point of view, albeit without explicitly admitting it, needless to say. 
 … Yet this convergence of interests will not stop geopolitical analysts from continuing to mock Trump’s "vulgarity" and "brutality," driven as they are by their anti-American fervor and their loathing for both America's President and Israel's Prime Minister. 
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Myths of WWII: In fact, Churchill was "one of the most disliked and distrusted politicians of his age" while FDR was “a thoroughgoing Robespierre, a world revolutionary”

The title of a book review in The New York Times of a major history volume is called, teasingly and eye-openingly, Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II.

In “Advance Britannia,” Alan Allport shows the conflict from the perspective of England and its various colonies. As reviewed by Kevin Peraino (the author of “A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949”), Alan Allport's book shows how many instances of common knowledge about World War II turn out to be myths.

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely fought on “alone” after the fall of France, and second, that the New World ultimately came to the rescue of the Old.

The British prime minister Winston Churchill is the primary author of this narrative. In his memoirs, he claimed that not until Pearl Harbor had he recognized that Britain would survive the Nazi onslaught. With the United States finally involved, “we had won the war,” Churchill wrote. “The Empire would live.” Fighting alongside the Americans, he wrote, had proved “the greatest joy.”

Alan Allport skillfully subverts both these myths in “Advance Britannia,” the second volume of his elegant and unsparing history of London’s role in World War II. As he shows, Washington’s involvement was not an unqualified boon. Churchill had wanted Franklin D. Roosevelt’s help in Europe — not in the Pacific. Since their meeting aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in the summer of 1941, the American president had been urging Churchill to abandon Britain’s “backward colonial policy.” Compared with the conservative Churchill, Allport writes, Roosevelt was “a thoroughgoing Robespierre, a world revolutionary.”

Churchill’s “small island,” as the prime minister liked to call it, also never truly fought alone: To help pay for the war, it ruthlessly exploited its worldwide empire of more than 13 million square miles and 491 million people. Britain’s haughty imperiousness, along with the financial strain it caused, left the colonies vulnerable

 … Roosevelt’s intentions were not entirely pure either. … Again and again Washington clashed with London over policy in Asia and the Mediterranean. … By the final years of the war, Allport observes, the so-called special relationship had morphed into one of “patron and client.”

 … [In ADVANCE BRITANNIA: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945, the sequel to In the first volume in the series, “Britain at Bay”], Allport … overturns one piece of conventional wisdom after another — quarrelsome, occasionally, to a fault. 

Regarding myths in the first book, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft in his New York Times review of six years ago, 

Churchill’s ascent to power was as remarkable as it may have been providential, since in his 40 years in Parliament he had become one of the most disliked and distrusted politicians of his age. If he became an admired national leader it was “because he happened to fill a role that very badly needed filling at that moment.”

 … In fact, Franklin Roosevelt had met Churchill in 1918, and disliked him. He was now told by his ambassador in London, the horrible old corrupt anti-Semite and defeatist Joe Kennedy, that Churchill was useless and England was finished.

 … Allport calls Churchill “the most self-assertive, disputatious and dogmatic prime minister in history,” demonstrating that his military judgment before and during the war was often wildly wrong.

ADVANCE BRITANNIA: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 | By Alan Allport | Knopf | 631 pp. | $40

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Monday, April 06, 2026

The Shady Earnings of Innumerable Female VIPs on the Left

Wascally Orange Man Bad Is Wigging The Ewections!

Our ol' chum Damian Bennett has a lot to say (and quote) regarding the SAVE Act; America's Moon heritage; and, among various other subjects — and last but definitely not least — the shady earnings of innumerable female VIPs of the Left (from the Squad's members to BLM's founders).  

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Naughty Nat-ZEE Trump is up to his old tricks. Discombobulate him by SUPPORTING THE SAVE ACT! HAHAHA! You win by having him think he won! You are BRILLIANT! Resist by desist, win by give in; play to your strength, play dumb.

Remember, the fastest way to defeat Evil Orange Man Bad is to give him what he wants. Honest. Schumer attested.

Democrats Do Media Prep For November Losses:
Start here:
Not one of these predictions will prove true, but the predictors will insist Democrat election losses are proof positive midterms were rigged, because who wouldn't vote Democrat? [Pause.] Bueller? Bueller?
Greetings Fellow Selenites
Respect YOUR Moon heritage. Demand YOUR Moon rights. "Few people understand this historical nuance, but the indigenous people of the Moon are the 'Americans', a scrappy minority tribe from planet earth that first arrived on this desolate rock in earth-year 1969. We must respect these original settlers and their right to the land."

HANDS OFF THE OUR MOON, Earthbound green-eyed underachievers and Euro-wankers. 

Bah-bah-but what about the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, of which the United States is a signatory, that declares space is the "province of all mankind" and must be used for the benefit of all countries. You might recognize the old formulary -- America does the heavy lifting and invests blood and treasure and more treasure, after which the world pulls up its tuffet at the dessert buffet. The OST is overdue for a re-think. 

Vacationing Citizen Of Everywhere, Ketanji Brown Jackson! (BONUS: Jasmine Crockett 'Accomplished Black Women Earners' Pageant)
So stupid it's not funny it hurts.

Justice Jackson's Birthright Citizenship Comments Were A Total Disaster April 2, 2026
KBJ: "I was thinking, you know … I, a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It's allegiance, meaning, can they control you as a matter of law?" She continued: "I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen, to, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it." Then the kicker: "So there's this relationship based on — even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan, I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense. Is that the right way to think about it?"

What Jackson described isn't allegiance in any constitutional, historical, or even pedestrian sense of the word. It's basic jurisdictional law - the notion that when you're in a foreign country, local law applies to you.

The bright spot here is that if you have ambitions to sit on SCOTUS but are unconversant with law, the Constitution, do not understand legal theory, are not capably disquisitive, have a difficult time with concepts and analogy, but like to talk a lot -- well, despair NOT! KBJ is proof anyone -- ANYONE (preferably with "a pulse, a vagina, and black" -- can be elevated to the highest court in the land. Q: How does this Big STOO-pid rise to high office? On the heavy froth of lower stoo-pid:

JC: "The meltdown over Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is truly something EVERYONE needs to pay attention to. You see, as the first & only black woman to ever serve on the court, she had to be 10 times better than most… She continues to flex her brilliance in oral arguments & many dissents. 

Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It… if you have any questions… let’s talk about Senator, now Secretary Mullin… or please pull the resumes of some of the other justices before entering this chat… actually just don’t, it’s not a debate, these are FACTS (alternative facts = LIES)."


"Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It", like the below accomplished black woman (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):

‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard Reportedly Facing Eviction Over Back Rent Amid Lavish Spending Habits September 29, 2024
Henyard, dubbed by residents as “the worst mayor in America,” and her boyfriend Kamal Woods owe more than $3,300 in rent on a home they have been renting in the 14600 block of South Harvard for the past three years, FOX32 Chicago reported, citing copies of an eviction notice filed against the couple in Cook County Court. ... Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot previously investigated Henyard for her spending habits in the Village of Dolton... Lightfoot’s investigation into the town’s financial situation revealed ...Dolton’s general fund balance was $5.61 million in 2022, but by May 2024 the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million. Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers. One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023, on Amazon. Henyard most recently spent approximately $85,000 to throw a party that featured R&B singer Keke Wyatt and rapper J. Holiday last month. [Where is this accomplished black woman  today?]

Earned! Earned! Earned!

More earners! (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):
Earned! Earned! Earned! So many earners!

So many accomplished black women earners! (pulse, check; vagina, check; black, check):

[Florida Democratic congresswoman Sheila] Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of, essentially, laundering funds mistakenly paid by the state of Florida into a health agency her family owns and using that money to fund her own campaign for office.

Earned! Earned! Earned!

Oh, and another top earner (Check! Check! Check!):  
Earned! Earned! Earned!

MORE earners! (Check! Check! Check!): 
  1. Alleged year-long fraud scheme: Prosecutors say Mayor LaToya Cantrell and former NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie used public funds to cover salary, travel, and expenses for personal activities, often together at the Upper Pontalba apartment or on trips.
  2. Over 15,000 WhatsApp messages: The indictment alleges Cantrell and Vappie exchanged more than 15,000 messages, pictures, and audio clips in eight months, including instructions to intimidate subordinates, delete evidence, and lie to investigators.
  3. $70,000 in travel costs: Vappie allegedly accompanied Cantrell on at least 14 domestic and international trips, with city travel costs exceeding $70,000.
  4. Pressure on NOPD leadership: Prosecutors claim Cantrell pressured then–Interim NOPD Superintendent Michelle Woodfork to halt an internal investigation into Vappie, and later reassigned him to her detail despite findings against him.
  5. Obstruction and concealment: The indictment says both were warned their conduct was illegal, yet concealed records from a grand jury, falsely claimed use of disappearing messages before news broke, and manually deleted thousands of prior WhatsApp messages.
  1. Waiving of Executive Privilege: The Biden White House cleared the way for Willis’s team to interview former Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, which traditionally protects communications within the executive branch.
  2. Willis' office given $18 million in federal funding during the probe: The Biden Justice Department "invited" Willis to apply for a $2 million "sole-source" grant in 2022 while her investigation was accelerating. This was part of more than $18 million in federal funding her office received during her tenure.
  3. Direct Coordination with the J6 Committee: Internal communications reveal Willis’s office collaborated extensively with the Democrat-led House Jan. 6 Committee, appearing to receive "oral summaries" of witness testimony and access to committee documents in Washington, D.C.
  4. White House Meetings: Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade billed Fulton County for an "interview with DC/White House" in November 2022. Despite the billing, the county claimed Wade kept no records of what occurred during this interaction.
Earned! Earned! Earned!

Before the prog and karen blue meanies and race baiters/hustlers/grifters and the smear brigades cry 'RACIST!', please admit your nasty go-to smear does not change the "FACTS (alternative facts = LIES)". As Ms. Crockett attests, da facts am da facts.

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Just you wait, as the Democrats wish-cast themselves back in power, yeah -- just you wait.
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