2. The open letter was written by the former head of the French Foreign Legion and signed by 19 other retired general, 80 officers & 1000 lower ranks. It warns that anti-racism is destroying France & the military might need to restore order.
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3. The letter is having repercussions in France and the USA. Marine Le Pen praised it. The Claremont Institute (the leading Trumpist think tank) translated it and suggested it carries a message for America.
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4. Readers of my feed will note that I was always insisted in 2020 and early 2021 that any Trumpist coup would fail because the military was not on board. Well, it seems the Trumpists have drawn that lesson & its logical corollary.
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5. Will the American right be able to follow the French example and organize a mutinous cadre in the officer class? Remains to be seen. But it's clearly the goal going forward. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-international …
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say what you will about coups, but at least they force a reckoning about the structural foundations of democracy that we've put off for 170 years
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maybe, just maybe, we should have revisited the compromise between north and south baked into apportionment in the constitution after the civil war
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@lionel_trolling has been waiting for this…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Conservative anglophone twitter loves this letter. They are also claiming a poll shows ~60% of France backs the coup (?!?!).
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