It went quickly. We were on the war foot five minutes after the big stage between Trump and Zelensky at the White House. The scales had made us wise, resigned to admit that, yes, we were going to have to devote a lot of money to our defense. And then everything went. Let’s be up, but pay you, you! No question of falling back on our “achievements” and even less on our automatic requests. You know, those that take place with totems: civil servants ask for posts; The unions want nothing, ever, impact their requirements, especially with regard to retirement age … everything has to change, of course, but on condition that nothing changes …
Especially since we immediately found the voices it was necessary to offer sumptuous alternatives to “austerity” promised. Ah, Manuel Bompard and his unlined disarmament … We also found it to put into perspective both the seriousness of the threat and the effort to be made. Thomas Piketty – Rebelote – has not failed in the task in The world of March 15: “If this is essential, Europe could also increase its military spending. Still, it is necessary to provide proof of this necessity”; As if the only absolute proof could reside elsewhere than in the military disaster itself, for lack of us to have dissuaded the enemy from acting before having been able to validly fight it … The same, further: “The real issue is […] Above all, to set up structures allowing to make collective decisions to effectively protect Ukrainian territory “; as if the fate of Ukraine constituted, in itself, the only challenge to face and as if we were only opposed to a local crisis, for a few months …
There must not be a geopolitician or a serious military expert to deny that the level of security risks jumped in Europe and not to conclude in the need for a major financial start, maintained over at least ten or fifteen years, to find a credible army. But no. Above all, don’t believe them. Doubts! Let’s do the clever since we are there for that, and resume where we were before we bother ourselves …
The possibility of a new dissolution
Another scene, same atmosphere. We talk about the government’s censorship. There has been a budget for 2025, it is not so bad. No reason to give other guarantees of sustainability to anyone. Pensions, foreigners, the 2026 budget… The blackmail occasions will not miss. Not to mention that on July 7 is approaching and, with it, the possibility of a new dissolution of the National Assembly. It plans dry in the partisan staffs. At the corner cafe, we relaunch the prediction competition, to general satisfaction.
Meanwhile, no one is worried about seeing a strong fear of normative instability come back. French companies have, in addition to their enormous usual problems, to absorb another shock – the disorder of world trade that America has greedily triggered with great customs duties. To invest, hire, innovate, they therefore, more than ever, need to see the field of uncertainty reduces because there are many (too much). But no. Catastrophic perspectives accumulate. Let’s give it a layer. Let’s reversed the government. Why not a little civil war as long as we are there?
Declines are not wrong. We have lost the taste and undoubtedly the ability to acquire what it takes to face the world: become adults, give up magic thought, accept loss and compromise, differ, see what is and no longer only what we would like to be, share fire, pay the price …
We only leave childhood by brief moments. It would not be very serious if there were no immense sufferings to expect from this irresponsible immaturity which is now taking place in a way of being. But there are. And they will not have a commune measure with those including, junk victims, we complainedly complained from evening to morning.
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