Macron Magician

God gave them a perfect day. Elsewhere in France the weather was often mixed but on the Normandy landing beaches the sun shone all day long. God did his part. But what did mere mortals do with it ?

Sadly, mere morals did what they usually do : took it all for granted and forgot about God’s divine intervention to deliver Europe from evil in 1944.

And again Emmanuel Macron perverted a moment in history to promote himself. He hi-jacked the 80th anniversary commemoration of the sacrifice and historic success of the Allied Landings in Normandy on 6th June 1944.

6th June 2024 was planned like a French political meeting, rising to a climax and placing Emmanuel Macron centre stage as Leader of a « Free Europe » standing defiantly against the threat from the Russian Tsar, Putin.

Accordingly, the Canadian and British commemorations were planned for the morning, concurrently. Inevitably, media coverage had to make a choice as to which to report primarily : they went for the British. I was appalled that the commemoration of the vital Canadian contribution was relegated to mere pictures on a split screen segment. Yes, the British ceremony was broadcast, but French media pundits often talked over the translator.

The American commemoration early afternoon was treated by French government and media as the principal national commemoration of the day. After all, they are fellow Republics. Jo Biden played his part perfectly in Macron’s orchestration when he pointedly identified Putin as the 21st century incarnation of Evil we must now fight.

The day reached its high point with the international commemoration. The now un-elected President of Ukraine was seated front and centre for all the world to see. All this, however, was but the lead up to Macron’s big speech:

the fight of democratic freedom loving peoples everywhere is again before us in Ukraine and we must defeat Putin’s tyranny at any cost.

Now, historical accuracy has rarely been the strongpoint of politicians, ditto their respect for other people’s traditions or views. And Macron is the consummate contemporary politician : it’s all marketing, it’s all ME ; and it’s all callously careless of the very real suffering of millions of ordinary people, be they French, British, Americans, Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, whoever.

Domestically, Macron has failed. The promised Saviour of 2015 has not delivered. Instead, things have got worse – drugs gangs operate with impunity, and not just in major cities now. Ditto so-called ‘honour crimes’ in suburbs dominated by religious extremism. Ditto lawless teenagers who steal cars and refuse to stop for the police – in the latest instance just this last week, a 14 year old refused to stop for police and soon after crashed, killing an innocent man.

Since the death of « young Nahel » a year ago, police are frightened to use force to stop tearaways risking the lives of innocent bystanders. « Young Nahel » was well known to police ; had been prosecuted for joy riding previously ; had near missed killing innocent people already the same day an officer decided to pull his pistol and warn the young errant, before firing to stop the reckless 17 year old from getting away again. Within hours Macron himself condemned the police officer, without even knowing all the details. And for his pains, the police officer was suspended, arrested and imprisoned. Result ? Widespread rioting across France as young hooligans saw that the government sided with the miscreant, and distanced themselves from the police. The Far Left felt free to adopt the slogan, “la police tue” and deliberately stoked the turmoil.

In Macron’s ambitious mind however, domestic problems are not the issue. He now plays on the international stage where the 1944 clash of Good and Evil is alive today between the West and Russia.

But back in 1944, Britain and the USA held their noses as they actively supplied the war effort of their ally, Stalinist Russia. For western government back then, geopolitics was brutally realistic, not idealistic. Back in 1944, the American President characterised the United States and Britain as « Christian Democracies » in conflict with Evil. Back in 1944 Ukrainians sided with Nazi Germany – there was even a Ukrainian SS unit. And until 2022, liberal and left wing Western media regularly reported on widespread official corruption and the persistence of Nazi militias in Ukraine – a Ukraine in which American businessmen including President Biden’s son, Hunter, were happily doing business …

So today in the freedom loving Western nations, just what will we send our young people to die for ? Western nations like France in the condition I have already mentioned ? For governments who lock down their populations at the behest of the plutocrats in global petro-chemical industries; for a political culture prepared to oblige ‘free’ populations in supposed ‘democracies’ to depend on the multi-billion dollar Pharmaceutical industry for their regular fix of superfluous ‘vaccine’.

And now, we are supposed to swallow blatant propaganda about a military invasion from Russia because it suits the political ambitions of a contemporary wannabe Napoleon …

The same day Macron staged his global propaganda coup, however, the General Secretary of NATO held a press conference with the President of Finland. He stated unequivocally what we can all see for ourselves: Russia is not a viable military threat to the West. That is obvious. They are still slugging it out in eastern Ukraine after more than 2 years. Taking resources from the Baltic area to do so, Russia has no capacity to over-run  Europe, and even less to hold on even if it did.

The magician deflects our perception from the truth to convince us of a falsehood which serves his own agenda.

But mere mortals like Mr Macron would do well to heed the Psalmist:

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled  but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.