Is a military coup really a threat in France?
I have wondered what is going on in France: "What the HOLY FUCK is going on in France? Is it too late already?"
Seriously, what is happening in France?
[Recently,] some 20 retired French generals and other officers and enlisted men (some of them still serving) penned a startling open letter, directly addressed to president Emmanuel Macron, his government, and the rest of the nation, warning of the possibility—no, the necessity—of a military coup if the country doesn’t get a grip on its restive Muslim “hordes” in the ghettos called “banlieues,” and on the manufactured leftist social unrest that calls itself “anti-racism.”
Is there really a threat of a military coup in France to fight Islamist advances within France?
Certainly, those writing and signing the letter didn't worry about repercussions. Do they represent a large portion of the military?
I understood that France needs to move quickly to defeat advancing tides of Islamist thinking inside France, as my post above wondering if it was too late to peacefully stop the Islamists noted.
And maybe the French military people think that it is too late for whatever they think the French civilian government is capable of doing to win that struggle.
I wrote about that, too, some time ago. I think that rather than succumb to creeping Islamization that a Europe with a long history of violence will be ruthless if pushed that far:
I've always felt that Europeans will not sit back and let unassimilated jihadi Moslems take over their continent. With a bloody history, Europeans will fight back and win. And they will be brutal about it if they feel desperate enough.
Is this what the letter from the generals is trying to prevent by pushing for a more energetic civilian-led response while there is time?
Or is the letter an indication that a number of French leaders think the time for a more brutal measure is needed now?
And can such a fight be restricted to jihadi-supporting Islamists without devolving into anti-Moslem hate in general? I did not want our war on terror to go that route. And to our credit America did not follow that route. But America has never had anywhere near the problem of Islamist thinking here that France and other European states cope with (or fail to cope with).
How desperate do the French feel?
As an aside, what will the European Union do if there is a coup in France to fight Islamist ideology? Will it follow along continent-wide in such a struggle? Germany doesn't seem completely oblivious to the problem:
The German government on Wednesday banned a Muslim organization that it accused of supporting "terrorism globally with its donations."
Does that indicate a German willingness to go along with harsher methods? Does it hint that the EU bureaucracy might welcome a coup in France to justify faster methods to strip the prefix from the proto-imperial EU structure?
Or is Germany trying to preempt harsher methods? Or is this business as usual that I am giving more weight to because it happened just after the letter.
Could the EU, whether in its current form or in a more imperial form, instead try to mobilize other states to stop France?
Or will the EU collapse with a threat that it simply cannot cope with by consensus and cheese regulations?
UPDATE: Geopolitical Futures summarizes the letter and concludes:
That so many current members of the defense and security establishment were willing to sign the letter suggests they do not fear punishment. This is especially notable in a country like France, with a history of the military getting involved in domestic politics. This could be a warning to Macron.
That struck me, too.
UPDATE: Is the French military really becoming more "far right"? Or is this the judgment of a left-wing media world that sees anybody to the right of social democrats as far right? Could the mere rejection of Islamist influence be enough to earn that label?
UPDATE: Whoa. Jes suis France:
France’s Minister of Defense and the head of the French Army announced that they would sanction active duty soldiers who signed onto the letter which declared :”It is no longer the time to procrastinate, otherwise tomorrow civil war will put an end to this growing chaos…”
As a result, thousands of active duty members of the French armed forces published another letter supporting their compatriots.
More political fallout is to be expected as a result of this new publication.
Below is a translation of this second letter, which at the time of writing, had over a million signatures:
Letter at the links.
