![]() Two articles discussed the American military that is the devastation of fighting capability due to the woke culture, and another considering if America can win a war at all. ![]() This piece reads to me like the usual neoconservative antisemitism “wolf crying”. The president of the Republicans Overseas France wrote about leftist antisemitisme being on the rise in the US. ![]() The first piece is a translated article by Rod Dreher on the woke culture of the universities. While the cover of Le Spectacle du Monde is eye-catching, I found the articles rather superficial for a regular reader of LRC. I wrote about sustainability as corporate policy I have witnessed elements of diversity, inclusivity and equity as well. In the French corporate culture I am familiar with, wokeness has not quite arrived but I have the sense it is on the doorstep. It is the second most profitable market in the world for McDonald’s, second only to the US.” So I am not optimistic that France is immunized from the woke culture. Now it is reported here that “McDo is the number one provider of “French” fries and hamburgers in France. The French in general, especially the left, tends to denounce American cultural influences in France, exemplified by the agricultural activist José Bové when he attacked an early McDonalds in the 70s. Extreme globalist President Macron also uttered that France will “ reject American ‘Woke’ culture that’s ‘racializing’ their country.” But even she noted while speaking ( October 5th at 27:20 of the broadcast) with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, that the American disengagement from Afghanistan was made in “chaos.” Blinken’s visit to Paris was in context of the shambles in US-French relations after the US-UK submarine deal with Australia that cost the French a big contract. The beautiful news presenter Anne-Sophie Lapix is politically rather vanilla and not known for her hard hitting interviews. But the critiques are not limited to the right. When I asked my French wife about Le Spectacle du Monde, she said her grandfather used to read it and it was right wing ( maybe less so today as reincarnated in 2017). The subtitle is the “forced retreat in face of the Taliban, shrinking from ‘woke dictatorship, is the empire crumbling?” Due to coverage in the English speaking world ( Newsweek, The website (Canadian), Nigel Farage interview on Fox) Lew Rockwell has brought it to my attention. I thought of this old phrase because the new issue of the French quarterly Le Spectacle du Monde (literally, the The Spectacle of the World) has the cover story Le Suicide Américain. I don’t know if people still say “don’t make a spectacle of yourself.” But the idea of trying to tell someone they are acting stupid and making a fool of themselves is how America’s allies may see the US, going from the frying pan to the fire of ridiculous behavior in the transition from Trump to Biden.
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