"Sheep Led by Donkeys?" Sébastien Laye Discusses His Book Describing the Élites (as Well as the Peoples) of France and the Western Hemisphere

 

The central question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will reshape our economy, but who will benefit from that transformation. … The social stakes are immense.

Ten days after penning The Ascent of AI Deplomacy in his AI Revolution series for the Washington Examiner, Sébastien Laye returns with a sequel of sorts, The political economy of artificial intelligence. 

But what is really on his mind these days is next week's publication of his book, and in that perspective we bring two in-depth interviews, with Frontières (Macron has ruined France, 35 minutes) and with GPTV (FRENCH BANKRUPTCY: EVIDENCE OF PRE-PLANNED DESTRUCTION, 1 hr 25). 

The title of the book is Des moutons menés par des ânes ?, or Sheep Led by Donkeys? or Sheep Led by Asses? The title is based on the age-old idiom Lions led by donkeys, and readers will recognize that its title could apply to just about any country in the Western hemisphere.

 
In an interview about his new book that starts out with a quote from Bastiat, Sébastien Laye says that Macron has ruined France. 

Oct 9, 2025  Grands entretiens fauteuil rouge

L'économiste et entrepreneur Sébastien Laye est l'invité exceptionnel du grand entretien de Frontières. Dans cet entretien, Sébastien Laye présente son nouvel ouvrage dans lequel il démonte les fables du macronisme, décortique trois décennies d'erreurs économiques et met en lumière l'inculture et l'aveuglement de nos dirigeants. À travers une analyse claire et documentée, nourrie de comparaisons internationales, il dresse le constat d'un pays où le bon sens a cédé la place à l'idéologie et l'action à la communication. Retrouvez son livre : "Des moutons menés par des ânes ?" Disponible sur Amazon : https://amzn.to/48Fg0Sf 👉 Commandez notre nouveau magazine à l'adresse suivante : https://www.frontieresmedia.fr/produi...

 
Sébastien Laye spent almost an hour and a half with GPTV's Mike Borowski discussing la FAILLITE FRANÇAISE : LES PREUVES D’UNE DESTRUCTION PROGRAMMÉE. 

L'ENTRETIEN GPTV EN DIRECT 7J/7

La France vit une décomposition programmée. Sous couvert de modernité et d’Europe « unie », Emmanuel Macron a accéléré la mise sous tutelle du pays par les structures technocratiques de Bruxelles et l’appareil militaire de l’OTAN. Désindustrialisation, explosion de la dette, effondrement énergétique, contrôle numérique et fiscalité punitive : rien n’a été laissé au hasard. Ce système ne vise pas la prospérité, mais la dépendance. Les élites administratives et financières ont méthodiquement sacrifié la souveraineté nationale pour maintenir leurs privilèges, transformant le citoyen en consommateur docile d’un ordre globalisé. Cette soumission n’est pas un accident, mais une ingénierie politique. Le macronisme repose sur la peur et la fragmentation sociale : peur sanitaire, peur climatique, peur sécuritaire. Chaque crise devient un levier de contrôle renforcé. La bureaucratie étouffe la productivité, les médias verrouillent la parole, et la démocratie se réduit à un simulacre. Les Français ne choisissent plus, ils subissent les décisions d’un pouvoir qui gouverne contre eux, sous la tutelle des institutions financières et transatlantiques. Pourtant, une alternative existe. La reconquête de la souveraineté passe par la sortie de l’OTAN, la restauration de la primauté du droit français et le rétablissement d’un État stratège au service de la nation. Souveraineté énergétique avec le nucléaire et les ressources locales, réindustrialisation réelle, indépendance numérique, politique monétaire au service du travail et de l’investissement : autant de conditions pour que la France redevienne une puissance libre et respectée. Face à la désintégration planifiée, seule une rupture nette avec la logique mondialiste permettra de redonner au pays son prestige et son autorité. Sébastien Laye et Mike Borowski dévoilent ce qu’il en coûte vraiment d’obéir à Bruxelles, en direct sur Géopolitique Profonde. 

 

Macron Invites Europeans and Arabs to France's Own Middle Eastern Peace Summit—Guess Which Country Is Not Invited: "While Trump Is Peace-Building, Macron Is Cosplaying"

As Causeur's Ivan Rioufol asks Will Trump and Netanyahu make history? and as Dreuz's Guy Millière wonders whether France's largest media outlets will concede the grandeur of Donald Trump — calling the state leaders who recognized a Palestinian state "odious cretins" as well as "servile Dhimmis" — a trio of Paris-based members and/or allies of the GOP (French, American, French-American…) take on Emmanuel Macron's hardly believable reaction to the Trump peace deal. 

Did you know that last Thursday (five days after Thousands of Demonstrators Marched Through Paris Demanding the Liberation of the Final Hostages Held by Hamas), France organized its own peace summit?! Among the countries invited to The Day After summit were five European nations (the big five: besides France — Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain) and five Middle Eastern countries (Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE), along with Turkey, Canada, and the EU. Guess which country, besides the United States, was not invited — i.e., to a peace summit involving "Palestine" and, uh… Israel? Oh, the answer would be, uh… Israel (!) — No antisemitism there (no anti-Americanism either), none at all! No Jews, no Yanks. 

And guess why? Because the countries involved want to organize a multinational UN force in the region. Very nice and friendly and neutral, n'est-ce pas? Hardly: the reason is purely anti-Israeli, to prevent more Jewish colonies in the West Bank and to ensure that the the countries' aforementioned recognition of a Palestinian state is not jettisoned, but goes forward. And here — in pure drama queen fashion ("existential threat"!!) — the French president reveals the profound dangers lurking for the region: "The acceleration of the construction of [Jewish] settlements in the West Bank constitutes an existential threat to the State of Palestine." The epitome of neutrality and objectivity, n'est-ce pas? (Merci pour l'Instalien, Sarah.)

To echo Dennis Prager, there are 22 Arab countries in the Middle East, and there between 50 and 60 Muslim countries in the world, but the planet's lone Jewish state — the size of New Jersey, smaller than Sicily or Jutland — must not be allowed to remain its (tiny) size but must be sub-divided.

Over at Valeurs Actuelles, Nicolas Conquer writes that While Trump Is Peace-Building, Macron Is Cosplaying. When Paris

brought together European and Arab ministers this Thursday to "rethink" the American peace plan—without even inviting Israel (!)—Donald Trump, for his part, brought the negotiations to a successful conclusion in Cairo. The result: France spoke, America acted. And this symbolic agitation came at a price: three wasted months, three months of tragedy, three more months of hostages and human lives lost. Our diplomacy claims to "re-enchant" the world, but it only prolongs its misfortunes.

 … [Trump's] detractors denounced an unpredictable president; they discovered a methodical strategist. Far from a list of caricatures, Trumpian diplomacy follows a clear line: using the balance of power not to dominate, but to create the conditions for peace. Where so many leaders procrastinate, Donald Trump is committing his own political capital, at the risk of unpopularity, including among his base. This consistency, even more than his style, is redefining the United States' place in the world today. He addresses the powers in the only language they respect: that of firmness. The trade war was not an end in itself, but a lever. While Biden apologizes [as does/did, (in)famously, Obama], Trump takes responsibility. While Macron moralizes, Trump concludes. 

 … Our president seeks the stage, Trump seeks the result. One of them multiplies the symbolic gestures, the other the signatures of peace. One of them is hoping for a virtue signalling prize, the other deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize.

Over at Causeur, Philippe Karsenty points out that Emmanuel Macron is doing everything in his power to prevent Trump from achieving a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas. Indeed, the spokesman for the Comité Trump France points out that the French president doesn't like any Jews, whether in France or in Israel — and, as it happens (although it may seem counterintuitive), he does not like any Arabs either, whether in France or in Gaza. Hence his title: Emmanuel Macron n’aime ni les juifs, ni les arabes, que ce soit en France, en Israël ou à Gaza 

What peace summit, given that Trump's is underway and on track to end the fighting? To waste time and to prolong the war and the ordeal of the Gaza hostages?

It should be noted in passing that those who have been vigorously calling for a ceasefire for two years—and who had it within reach a second time with Trump's September 29 plan—seem less eager to see it come to fruition… especially if it leads to the disappearance of Hamas and its jihadist allies.

Several questions then arise.

Faced with his repeated failures on all domestic fronts—from his failed dissolution to the successive prime ministers he has being consuming—have the Israelis and Gazans become the cannon fodder needed to sustain internationally a president who is completely discredited in France? Should his nihilistic handling of French domestic policy serve as a model for the Middle East? Or is Emmanuel Macron reviving good ol' medieval practices: is the Jew the scapegoat intended to divert attention from his many failures? 

What Karsenty says about the French politician's outlook on Jews and Arabs, I have often said the same about leftists, American as well as foreign: in the final analysis, they don't really care about Arabs, and blacks, and women, and gays, and transgenders, etc, etc, etc; the latter are simply victims — or weapons, if you will — to be used to shame regular citizens ("normies") in their incessant virtue signalling.
 
Indeed, in an interview about his new book (more about that in a few days) that starts out with a quote from Bastiat, Sébastien Laye says that all the "completely discredited" French president's hyper-activism with regards to international affairs is based upon the simple (and sordid) fact of his impopularity among the French people, given that Macron has ruined France. 

Sébastien Laye: The ascent of AI diplomacy

After paying visits during his travels to, among others, Texas and Miami — a place ROF's Sébastien Laye vaunts as "the new American economic model" — the economist and AI entrepreneur whose book is being published next week has penned an article called The ascent of AI diplomacy.

As artificial intelligence becomes the nervous system of advanced economies, it is simultaneously becoming the grammar of power in international relations. We are entering the era of AI diplomacy — where national influence is measured not just in nuclear warheads or GDP, but in computer clusters, proprietary models, and access to strategic data. 

But AI, as a General Purpose Technology, has accelerated the fusion of technology and statecraft. Like the steam engine in the British Empire or petroleum in post-World War II U.S. hegemony, AI now underwrites national competitiveness. And like oil, its essential inputs — data, compute, and algorithms — are becoming commodities over which alliances are struck and conflicts sparked. It is thus crucial for leading powers to control it. 

 … The current U.S. administration has not merely acknowledged this shift; it has enshrined it as doctrine. … Thus, a new U.S. doctrine is emerging. It is unapologetically accelerationist, oriented around deregulation, innovation, and technological sovereignty. …

ROF's Sébastien Laye and Camilla Furman at Bourse Tocqueville
on May 26 with the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts

Monday May 26

Last night in Paris, I was invited to a Bourse Tocqueville event hosted with the Heritage Foundation. We had the pleasure of welcoming in Europe @KevinRobertsTX , head of the renowned foundation, as well as many of his experts, such as @lora_ries and Mike Gonzalez. It was a great… pic.twitter.com/dUP9vKr4Ym

— sebastien laye (@SebastienLaye) May 27, 2025

Demanding the Liberation of the Final Hostages Held in Gaza by Hamas, Thousands of Demonstrators March Through Paris

To mark the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre and to demand the liberation of the Palestinians' remaining hostages, thousands of demonstrators marched through the boulevards of Paris last Sunday, singing "Shalom" and callback chanting such things as "Hamas / terroristes", "Hamas / assassins", and "Libérez! / les otages!"

There were pro-Israel demonstrations in Europe last Sunday, such as London and Paris — from la Place de la République to la Place Saint-Augustin — and elsewhere on the continent, such as Copenhagen, demonstrations are expected to be held next Saturday

According to TF1, there were 5,000 people in the streets, including Iranians waving the country's flag during the Shah era and gentiles like myself who chanced upon the demonstration by accident as they were marching behind l'Opéra Garnier. The march, brandishing  signs with the photos of the hostages, ended with the singing of the Israeli and the French national anthems (Hatikvah and La Marseillaise) — both of which are some of the most stirring anthems in the entire world. (Merci à Sarah pour l'Instalien.)

Three articles of note: 
• via Glenn Reynolds, CDR Salamander's Two Years Since the Oct. 7th Slaughter 
…what it tells us about non-Israelis…
• via Stephen Green, Naomi Nussbaum's Two Years After October 7, We Cannot Look Away.
• via myself, an article that took 12 days to write following the heinous attack: What Nobody Tells You About the Israeli Rave of October 7 — To Peacenik Protesters Everywhere (Pro-Palestinian or Other): The People that Hamas Slaughtered Mercilessly at Israel's Rave — They Are YOU!

 

A young girl sitting on her dad's shoulders
proudly waves le tricolore

A significant number of Iranian ex-pats joined
the march, waving Shah-era Iranian flags
or wearing clothes with the banner's colors

  

A couple of marchers recognized me (or, rather, my cat) from 
the Charlie Kirk homage and agreed to film me (us) in the march