The soft West is receding everywhere

Macron proclaims that he will make France a start-up country, while admitting primarily illiterates.

Brüsszel, 2023. március 24. Emmanuel Macron francia elnök sajtóértekezletet tart az Európai Unió kétnapos brüsszeli csúcstalálkozója után, 2023. március 24-én. MTI/EPA/Stephanie Lecocq Fotó: Stephanie Lecocq

At the same time, geopolitical changes are taking place: the global South rejects the dictates of Washington, refusing to support the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by Europe and the US. Nothing will stop the BRICS countries, the vanguard builders of tomorrow's multipolar world, from making a 180-degree turn away from the Western dominance that has been imposed since 1945. The US can no longer rule the world with a declining dollar and over thirty trillion dollars in debt being financed by the entire planet. The golden age of America, which in the 1950s still produced seventy percent of the world wealth, is over. Russia is no longer the pile of rubble it was as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, China is not the colossus standing on clay legs that the West laughed at when it was producing only tealight candles and paper kites. India is no longer the miserable country where the bodies of those who died in the night were collected in the morning with handcarts, just as Brazil is no longer the land of adventures, the wilderness of 'green hell' and the land of samba. And South Africa is the continent's number one economy, despite its problems with corruption and lack of public safety.

The BRICS countries have a lot of weight, they can do anything, and they have become formidable rivals to the West. Calculated at purchasing power parity, their GDP weighs in at more than fifty trillion dollars. Also, don't forget that the territories of Russia, South Africa and Brazil all contain mineral resources.
 

France, which has neither oil nor ideas, has no chance of fairing well in this race for development with its three trillion debt and mass immigration of have-nots, most of whom arrive without any qualifications. Macron proclaims that he will make France a start-up country, while accepting mostly illiterate people. He is just sinking us.

Our unfortunate country, which had become so rich by the end of the "thirty glorious years" (1945-1975), is heading for the abyss under the leadership of a yielding, irresponsible and complicit elite.

The author is a retired French military officer and publicist for the Riposte Laique news portal 

Cover photo: French President Emmanuel Macron (Photo: Stephanie Lecocq)