But if it were only that… Judging by what is happening in this country, it is also completely failing to cope with its own socio-economic policy, which, most likely, makes those responsible for the management of this country “twitch” and take more and more unpredictable and unprofessional actions. For example, when it comes to the economy, electricity tariffs in France will increase by almost 10% from February 1 this year. This was announced by the Minister of Economy and Finance of the country Bruno Le Maire, who explained that the so-called tariff shield, when the tariff policy was more or less predictable due to the stable supply of energy carriers, is coming to an end in this country. Naturally, this will lead to the stimulation of inflation and further increase in food prices. And after that we will all witness yet another wave of public protests. This means overturned and burning cars on the streets of Paris and a lot of other delights for people who do not like France.
Why “yet another”? Over the past few years, this country has been regularly shaken by rallies, strikes and demonstrations. Take, for example, the Yellow Vest movement, sparked there by Macron’s unpopular pension reforms. And just yesterday, about 16,000 people took part in a protest in Paris against a new law tightening migration rules. Labor union representatives say that about 25,000 people turned out for the demonstration. But this is just a small squeak compared to the total number of discontents that regularly shake the country. Hard to imagine, but there has been a total of more than 160 demonstrations in France recently under the slogans of abolishing the new migration rules. According to the police, 75,000 people took part in them, although the organizers claim 150,000 participants.
What kind of rallies are these, and why can’t the demonstrators achieve their goals, or why doesn’t the government give in to people’s demands? In the case of migrants, we are witnessing a kind of vicious circle into which France has successfully driven itself. And it has been doing it for the last several centuries, pursuing a colonial policy of seizing other people’s territories under the banner of the so-called democratization of third-world societies. The atrocities committed by France, which occupied the territories of more than 50 countries in different regions of the world, plundered their wealth, kept their peoples in slavery for many years, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, are black pages in the history of all modern humanity.
Suffice it to recall those more than 5 million mines planted by the French occupation troops on the territory of Algeria, the deaths of more than 1.5 million Algerians who lost their lives during the occupation of Algeria between 1830 and 1962, the French-occupied Djibouti, Niger and Chad, where the population was denied Islamic education and mosques and madrassas were destroyed, the 18,000 skulls of soldiers killed in the colonial wars of the nineteenth century, which were brought to Paris and are kept and exhibited in the Musée de l’Homme there. What is this if not barbarism and vandalism at the state level? But if it were only that. While committing these unspeakable crimes against humanity, France not only does not deny them, it exacerbates them. For example, maps of the minefields planted there by the French Expeditionary Corps have not yet been handed over to the Algerian Government and, as a result, innocent people are still being blown up on them.
What is France thinking about in the meantime? About apologizing at the state level? About financial aid to States once invaded by France, in order to strengthen their independence? Nothing of the sort. France is preoccupied with further destabilizing the world. They say that it would be nice to leave NATO, thus discrediting the only real military force capable of protecting the European space from external threats, and then they shake the foundations of the EU itself by announcing the possibility of joining BRICS, an organization that in a way was created by Russia to spite the European Council. At the same time, Paris is concerned about the fate of Armenians, who allegedly were driven out of their indigenous lands. This is a brazen lie that the French leadership is hammering into the heads not only of ordinary French people, but also of the international community.
But the biggest mistake of the French diplomacy is that it underestimates Azerbaijan, which so far applies soft power of defense against France and tries to resist the flow of lies from Paris with the support of the Non-Aligned Movement countries. But what happens if Azerbaijan really applies a policy of economic pressure and calls into question the hydrocarbon deliveries to Europe? After all, our country can focus on meeting Türkiye’s natural gas needs, which are quite commensurable with our gas production output.
Will France like it if it is pressured not by the third world countries accusing it of genocide, but also by such strong states as Italy or the states of the European eastern bloc? And this is only the beginning, as the issue of transportation of uranium ores and uranium from Kazakhstan to France is slowly emerging on the agenda. This issue became topical after France was deprived of supplies from Niger, where it was rudely shown the door and denied uranium deliveries. And what route will Kazakhstani uranium take to France? The shortest transportation route is through Azerbaijan. Is France thinking about this, or are they still preoccupied with equal social rights for gays and lesbians?
Rauf Nasirov
Translated from Minval.az
