A fifth column is taking shape in France, in the form of far right “sovereignists” who claim they support the “end of the West” narrative and the emergence of the BRICS, but who are fully supporting fascists like Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir in the Israeli government.
In France such a current is promoted by Vincent Bolloré, an unscrupulous far-right “Catholic” billionaire, who in recent years created a financial and media empire, and who, like the synarchy in the 1930s, is trying to impose a fascistic authoritarian state with racist anti-immigration policies. It’s a kind of French version of Steve Bannon.
A couple of spokesmen for those policies were interviewed recently in Journal du Dimanche (JDD), which Bolloré took over some months ago. Philippe de Villiers, a popular sovereignist who ran in the European elections a few years back in tandem with LaRouche enemy, Britain’s Jimmy Goldsmith, wrote an article for the Oct. 30 issue entitled “The Sea Change in the World.” He first recalls the euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, and the predictions of the new wizard of the West, Francis Fukuyama, of the end of the nations and of history. Today, de Villiers says, “history has caught up with them and turned everything on its head.”
Three unprecedented phenomena have occurred, he wrote. First, “the return of a neo-Westphalian world” and of ancient aspirations: the Turks’ dream of the Ottoman Empire; the Iranians of the Persian Empire; the Chinese of the Middle Kingdom; and the Russians of access to the warm seas. Second, the widening demographic abyss: the North, under the influence of hedonism and state nihilism, is sterilizing itself and planning its own demise. The South is pouring into the North and carries with it the age-old idea of revenge. And third, the collapse of the institutional system: the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the International Criminal Court are now institutions “that no one listens to any longer.”
